
I haven’t seen portable digital storyboarding fully embraced into the feature animation pipeline.

Below, he tells us why the app doubles up so well as storyboarding software, and how it could be improved…Ĭartoon Brew: Is using Ipad and Procreate a normal pipeline for feature animation storyboarding? If not, what is the standard pipeline? Colin JackĬolin Jack: No, generally we use Photoshop or Storyboard Pro. But he is also a prolific illustrator of children’s books ( Dragons from Mars, the Galaxy Zack series), and it’s in this capacity that he first started using Procreate. With his permission, we’re linking through to his pdf here.Īs a story artist for Dreamworks Animation, Jack has boarded for films including Captain Underpants, Boss Baby, Trolls World Tour, and the forthcoming The Croods 2. In a document released via his Instagram (and also made in Procreate), he provides a straightforward illustrated tutorial to storyboarding on Procreate, explaining how the app can be easily integrated into the Photoshop workflow. Jack has now shared his insights with the community. When suddenly confined to his home, he found that the flexibility of this approach suited him just fine. The story artist was already using Procreate, the Ipad illustration app, to draw his storyboards. Lockdown has forced artists, like almost everyone else, to rejig their work set-ups.
