ABSTRACT
A storyboard is a structured device for representing script and story ideas visually. Storyboards can be either created within a standardized page format or they can be constructed with larger drawings, which gives a much more detailed visual explanation of the story idea. Armed with preprinted sheets per the figure, and with an animator's thumbnail board to guide him/her, draw his/her film's scenes in greater detail—that is, from the original thumbnail idea sketch to a close-to-finished storyboard image that the scene will represent. Photographs are invaluable in the absence of anything else, of course, but the really great storyboard artists/illustrators always have their own library of reference images, invariably derived from drawing or color sketches that they have created from real life. When the entire board is complete, check through it one more time to see if it all makes sense and the story works in visual continuity.
