Hey everyone…Whew! It’s been a surprisingly busy month, for which I’m incredibly grateful for.  I tend to be a happier Coro when I have too much on my plate, vs having nothing to do but obsess and fixate on my intrusive thoughts. With less and less work floating around these days, I’m so thankful anytime someone thinks of me and throws me a bone.

Doing a bunch of storyboards for a couple different projects, which can be a bit of a grind volume-wise, but I love drawing them. Storyboarding is one of my favorite production tasks because it allows you to be the storyteller, which I very much enjoy doing. it goes a long way toward establishing the framework for how any given story is told. You help figure out framing, pacing, basic mood and lighting…its wild how much carries over to the finished product sometimes.

Boards can be very iterative because the team is literally working through the story, and it’s an organic process where sometimes things change for one reason or another. It can grind you down when you have to keep revising a scene over and over, but it makes sense to have an illustrator do it until the ideas are solid before getting a crew and shooting a thing without a clear plan. Plus its good practice as it sort of forces you to concentrate on the process.

Also working on another music video too which I can’t wait to show. As a child of the MTV generation I will always have a soft spot for the music video. Even if they don’t carry the same cultural weight they used to, the combination of music with supporting visuals is such a compelling combination.  And as much as I love creating still images, animation and motion stuff has always been a discipline I’ve wanted to get deeper into, so its cool to be given the opportunity.

Thought I’d share an update on where I’m at with these paintings of my kids. Been builds them up slowly using thin translucent layers of paint and it’s providing a nice subtlety to the forms that I’d never be able to get working wet in wet. It also builds up some nice textures that add depth. Planning on doing a few more sittings on these to try to see how far I can push them…which is hopefully not “to” far lol.