A few B/W keyframes with Manga Studio 5

Storyboard frames using Manga Studio 5

Painting with Manga Studio

These studies were painted using Manga Studio EX4 based on the ballpoint sketches of a pick-up basketball game from my previous post. I mostly used various Pencils on these.

Coloring without exporting to Photoshop seems more and more feasible.

• update: some storyboards drawn and colored with MS only

• more studies (including rendering with rulers and 32-bit color vectors)

A tonal storyboard using Manga Studio only

Here's my first B/W tonal storyboard done entirely with Manga Studio--no Photoshop, as I would normally have used to add the tones on an assignment like this. By turning on "[Use Size as Screen Value]" I was able to change brush sizes and get a fresh view at the same time. Using Pencils I frequently alternated "[Compare Darkness Compositing]" modes. (This is for a new tablet game-unannounced).

Some recent B&W storyboards using Manga Studio EX4

These were done loosely with vectors and finished with a Tone Layer (85L 30%).

keyframe

As a freelance storyboard artist, once a job is completed, I seldom know how the concept (campaign) is received by focus groups/clients. The usual way to find out if a concept made it to air, is to actually see it on TV ..many times catching it by chance in the background as I'm working on another project. This was the case here when I recently saw this quirky "Eat Like An Alpha" Oberto ad that I worked on 2 years ago.

..and my keyframe for this campaign that I dug up from '08: