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1997 Artist’s and Graphic Designer’s Market
By: Douglas S. Wood
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Before the cameras recorded the action, Mark Simon’s pencil brought the characters and action of seaQuest DSV to life. Simon was the storyboarder for Spielberg’s science fiction series… Though most artists have only a vague idea of what storyboarding is, Simon says it’s fun and lucrative. But you have to be quick on the draw to succeed…
You’ll need skills at drawing the human body, proficiency at perspective, and a good understanding of spatial relationships…. As many as 200 crew members might be reading the same storyboards and every single person on that crew must derive the same meaning from them to work together effectively…
Though Simon has moved from LA to Orlando, he still gets plenty of storyboarding assignments. He works on commercials, creates storyboards for Disney and Universal Studios in Orlando, art directs, lectures on opportunities for artists within the entertainment industry, and is the author of Storyboards: Motion in Art (1994, Nomis Creations). “Storyboarding is a tremendous creative outlet,” he says, “You get to sit in a movie theater and see your art come to life.”
