Hi, I'm Natalie, and I'm a story artist and director. I've drawn storyboards for RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET and BEE & PUPPYCAT. I am also a comics creator, and last year I made a GN about breaking into animation and what to expect in this career! #ThisIsAnimation
(I basically draw rough comic book versions of film scenes off of a script, and I help brainstorm story ideas in the "story room"! Story art is FUN and super important in the filmmaking process, but it's pre-production art, meaning most of it is never seen outside of the studio.)
Got this casual compliment at work last month. I don't think they knew how much it meant to me. People will try to convince you that feeling things is a weakness, but it's not.
Last night I dreamed that I was trying to convince Noah to let the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles onto the arc. "There's nothing like them in the world! I'm not sure they can reproduce, but I think we should save them!"
I love drawing how things FEEL, not exactly what they look like in real life.
This couple's body language was so dramatic...! What were they talking about?? He was leaning so far in, putting his feet and hand on her chair, and she was leaning so far back. Nashville TN
A lot of the time, art teachers try to get us to draw larger, because it helps when studying anatomy and drawing the whole figure. But I think for studying simplification/caricature, it helps a lot to draw SMALL on the page!
People asked to see my storyboard thumbnails/sketches vs clean-ups, so here are some examples from the sequence I'm currently boarding for Stephanie Stine's class! ✍️
My cartooning HERO is ❤️ Aude Picault ❤️ Read absolutely everything by her!!
This one broke ?