Our gallery site ran on good software but it is no longer updating so we’re looking for one that will replace it or we’ll move the entire library of works to pinterest or flickr.
For the moment, here’s a sample of our illustration and design work. More >
When storyboarding a children’s book the first stage is to get inside the originator’s mindset by thinking through the final story draft. It has to be the final draft with a storybook so that the words and design fit as one. Sometimes we are asked to just produce illustrations leaving the design to the publishing house.
With a music vid. storyboard the imagery we visualise overlaps with sound so the fit is a timing one.
Cover designs can be an image repeat from inside a storybook but as they have a distinct function to sell the title, they are often produced as one offs along with point of sale images.
Stories arrives by email in plain text format showing page breaks so we know which paragraphs appear on each page and any specific design requests. The final draft comes from a publishing house editor, a book packager or sometimes an author.
The first step is for us to send back a simple thumbnail storyboard. Changes around this thumbnail stage continue until the full team are happy to press on.
Each thumbnail is developed to produce a sketch storyboard and here’s an example of one produced by artist Peter Scott M.A. for the story Arthur the Artist.
The story, ‘Arthur the Artist’ is copyright of one of our clients, Andrew Segal, of Village Folk Books, author of:
