Yeah! First day of class. Our first assignment is an exploration of Storyboards and visualizing in 3D. Most of this semester is an exercise in breaking the visual plane and turning ourselves from passive viewers in front of a flat glass box into creative professionals who can insert and rotate themselves in imaginary worlds to find the “best” shot. This applies to art directing a product photo shoot, to conceptualizing a magazine layout, to producing a commercial or conceptualizing a film.

A couple of templates we will be using in class:

tv-strybrd2.pdf
tv-strybrd-6x.pdf

The joke sheet:  jokes.doc

and a weblink for discussion purposes:

Josh Sheppard

The holidays are officially over and I am neck deep again in web sites (finishing one and starting another), a catalog project for another client, and of course curriculum tweaks for this upcoming spring semester. The first project for my NIC Illustration II class will be story boards. I am changing it very little from last year, but I still need to get it organized and set up so that it presents well. I haven’t checked the rosters yet but I expect full classes with lot of the same faces (bright and cheery and ready to work! that I had last semester.

I didn’t do as much painting and working on my book that I wanted to do over the holidays, but I did relax and catch my breath which is just as important, if not a little bit harder to pull out of. (Damn. Ended in a preposition. minus two points for bad grammar.)