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Published: 2011-08-27 02:42:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 41388; Favourites: 936; Downloads: 496
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It's a new kind of storyboarding tutorial…This is the storyboard I drew for a 30-second SpongeBob Burger King commercial. See the original commercial here: www.dailymotion.com/video/xczt…
I have marked up THIS particular submission with commentary notes to give some insight into the storyboarding process!
You can see the unmarked storyboard pages at >> bit.ly/SpongeBobCommercial <<
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Never thought i'd find the example my storyboarding class used years ago!
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The storyboard is really great, and the anotations help tons to learn about it, thanks for sharing!
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Pretty cool 
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That was so interesting to see the notes and what means what! It's very helpful with all the different shots and horizon lines. Love this, and am totally about to go through your DA to see if I can find more!!
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Really useful, thank you very much for submit it!!
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You're welcome -- I'm glad you found it helpful
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I remember this commercial! It was hilarious! Really neat to see the notes.
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Amazing! This'll help me a bit more on how to storyboard (as i want to be a pro animator, and i think storyboards would help me if i ever did short [Flash-]animations along the way).
And of course, i'm a big fan of SpongeBob! XP
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Hi Mr Cohen big fan! I found this very insightful and wanted to ask about the part where you talk about the "jump cut". I understand what a jump cut is and why you wanted to avoid it but I can't seem to wrap my brain around why the horizon shifting causes it to not be a jump cut. I re-watched the commercial but don't recall seeing that other shot. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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The main thing is to make sure that one background looks different from the background in the next scene so that it doesn't look like the characters are popping from one place to another against the same background. In most cases it's easy to make a change in the background because people are standing near different walls and other background elements; in this case, the only possibility is to lower or raise the horizon. I hope that helps!
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Yes I get it now. Thank you so much for your response. It has made my day and hopefully the next few weeks easier as I will be working on a storyboard. I shall make great use of everything you have talked about. Thank you so much.
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This is up on the wall at my University! (Arts University Bournemouth!)
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That's great to hear...thanks for letting me know! It's always nice to know that people are using the stuff I post
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I remember seeing this on TV. I FINALLY found it on the internet [link]
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YAY I'M LEARNING
I really want to be a storyboard artist in the future
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Is it just me or is this the most on model storyboard I've ever seen? Usually I see storyboards and they just vaguely look similar to the source material. But you went all out and accurate!
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It depends on the show...If you have a good crew of animators, you can afford to draw a bit more losely. Some show-runners want to make sure that everything looks exactly like the storyboard, and in those cases the storryboard artists have to make sure that every last detail is included. I think that this one was drawn so cleanly because it was for an advertisement, and it had to be approved by people that are not used to reading rough storyboards.
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Great stuff! I love getting an inside look at the process!
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"the point-of-view shot is resolved by cutting back to the character looking..." is a great note.
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how did you copy the drawings so perfectly, like the backgrounds and stuff
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Thanks for sharing. It's really nice to see genuine storybord material that was actually used in production being submitted here.
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Thanks very much for this. This not only would help with story boarding but comics and other sequential art as well. Very grateful for you sharing your thought processes here.
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Very useful and helpful -- definitely gives you some idea of what the process of storyboarding is all about! Especially the slang. I'm interested in this career, and I'm very glad that you've been so generous with imparting your knowledge. My sincerest thanks!
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how bad that the most probable thing is that I won't be able to see this (I mean, do we have burger king here? xD) but I'm still glad to have been able to see the storyboard. they are great inspiration for creativeness
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I remember this! The promotion was for a bunch of collectibles you could get in a kids' meal!
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I was working as a storyboard artist/writer/supervisor on SpongeBob from 1998 until 2005
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Oh My Gosh! I gonna thanks you for the all episodes that always made me laught! (I'm from Argentina) I remember the first episode when Sponge Bob get the job in KrustyKrab xDDDD thans you for the every episode in my childhood
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Love how rough and informative this is. Thanks for this!
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I remember this commercial! Awesome, this is a big help, I always love learning everything I can about storyboarding (especially with SpongeBob! Ha). Thanks, Sherm!
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This is highly informative for people like me that were never really taught about storyboarding in college but still wanted to learn, and it answered some questions I had pertaining to some of the terminology on the sheets.
Thanks a lot for taking the time out and posting these!
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