During our first year on the course, we were given a surface level dive into what is required to be an animator and what it takes. To me, becoming a cleanup artist on the first stages to work on projects without a single control over style, idea, concept sounded very dissatisfactory. As someone who values visual language and because of my affiliation with comic illustration and scriptwriting, I started looking into positions in the animation industry that could be suited for me other than cleanup artist or animator. A possible career that appeared in my vision was storyboard artist. When we break down what it means to write a comic, as I already do , it breaks down into two aspects: storyboarding and illustration. I really enjoy communicating an idea or a story in a series of consecutive panels. The official definition of the job of the storyboard artist is as follows: storyboard artists help the head of the story create a visual representation of the narrative. This job is part of the preproduction. In some cases storyboard artists do cleaned up storyboards, to make sure that they are in the right style for the project. These are the skills that I already poses and I would be happy to improve on. Next, I had to talk to someone who is a storyboard artist.
