Storyboard Portfolio
This page contains a selection storyboards or comic-style panels, that demonstrate story planning. I have an example from a puppet short film, a web comic, and a video game cut-scene (along with some extra fun/practice samples at the bottom to round it out).
City of Shadows
City of Shadows is a puppet film, created in 72-hours at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and voiced by Martin P. Robinson (the voice of Mr. Snuffleupagus and Telly on Sesame Street). The film is a cardboard noir about a hard-boiled detective who crosses over into the world of shadow, giving him pause to question how he spent his life. I storyboarded sequences, building out the shot lists, directing/performing with other puppeteers, and building all the puppets.
Like many others, I was battling anxiety and gloom during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. I channeled those feelings into this webcomic that had this consistent plague doctor character (and his pandemic pup, the French bulldog), as he dealt with masking, toilet paper shortages and a revolution out the window with the BLM protests.
I recently storyboarded and animated an intro cut-scene for my indie dungeon crawler, titled Into the Wizard Maze. Bergold the Bold, a hapless dwarf who stumbles into a Wizard's pocket kingdom must free himself while emancipating the other slimes, centaurs and other magical creatures enslaved by the Wizard. Old-school dungeon-crawling with turn-based combat harkens back to the original Might and Magic Series, Lands of Lore and Wizardry, plus a comic story with existential undertones and dark humor.
