Storyboards (Patreon)

This is the 1st pass of storyboards for the 1st episode.  This part of the process comes after outlining the structure of the story and each character's arc.  Once I have an idea about what hurdles each character has to overcome I play the whole thing out in my head visually and see how their personalities come to life.  

I use MS paint for this phase because I need to get the whole thing on paper ASAP, and the limitations of the program help achieve that by forcing me to avoid focusing on things like visual details, line quality, or strict modeling.  At this phase you really only need to know who the character is, what they're emoting, and where they are in the space relative to the camera.

Once this phase is over I jump into a 1st draft of the script.  I like to play into the strength of the medium by making it board focused.  That way the visuals are kept interesting and avoid becoming a talking head show, so it's important to board before dialogue.