Looking for an experienced storyboard artist to do an 18 page short. Project is not a student film - but a low budget proffesional production.

Have your name associated with a new technology, as this is one of the first projects EVER to use DALSA's mega-definition camera.
Guaranteed IMDB page for you upon completion of film.

Please send all questions and interests, as well as examples of previous work to mattzien@yahoo.com.

You will not regret it.

What the hell does a storyboard artist DO, anyways? I assume he is not responsible for pre-planning shots, seeing as how that's the director's territory, lol...

Pretty sure they draw the storyboards... Anyway, good luck with the search, sounds like a great project.

Well, I know THAT, hahaha...I'm just saying that it makes no sense for a director to stand over some guy's shoulder, telling him what to draw, just so the picture will look nice and pretty. Unless the director is EXTREMELY articulate, it's pretty near impossible to convey an artistic vision through words nearly as well as you can by drawing the damn picture yourself. It's what ends up on the film frame that counts, not on the storyboard panel, after all.

That's true, I usually just use stick figures and arrows when I do it. (didn't mean to hijack thread, sorry!)

When you are conveying images to a crew of 20+ persons, it is much easier to show it with pictures then to explain every shot to every person.
In addition, storyboards make excellent 'pluses' to have when you are presenting your film and its script to potential investors, even if they end up looking nothing like the finished project.

Every single proffesional production, from a commercial for Walmart to X-men will have storyboards, and they will have been drawn by a storyboard artist who interprets the script. It is more of a production-quality thing to have, then something to help the director, although it can be extremely helpful.

Let me re-iterate.. if you have experience we might negotitiate some form of payment.

Have you tried to get some storyboard software like Frameforge or Storyboard Lite? They are more 3-d than traditional storyboards but they should do the trick for you I think. Plus you don't have to be an artist to use them. That way you can start working on your boards asap. I have story board lite and as artistically challenged as I am what I come up with works for my projects.

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Hi there, Generally speaking the Director will pass a 'technical-script' across to the Storyboard Artist. This holds a little discription of the Shot, including dialogue, shot duration, time of day and shot length etc. The way I deal with any toing and froing is to provide thumbnails of the keyframes from the technical script. Once the Director signs it off, I can move to 'clean-ups' which is exactly as it sounds.
The job is both exciting and demanding. Regardless of a bad day the boards need to be done. I work on an average of five shots a day.
It is also part of the job to do 'pick-ups' These are additional or 'ammendments' that the director wants to see when stitching the boards together for the animatic.

I haven't done storyboarding, but I have done comic work (you can see that at: http://stupidufo.blogspot.com/ ) which I suppose is similar. I can't do the animatic though, and obviously if you want it done in any reasonable amount of time, it won't be as detailed as the comic in the link above. The bonus is that I live in Japan, so I can work in what would be the middle of the night in the U.S. , which means any adjustments requested overnight could be done by the next morning. I would need the script with the director's notes detailing cuts and shot choices. Also I'm just bumming around til university, so I've got loads of time. Let me know if you are interested.