On Tuesday I spent about 2 and a half gruelling hours doing thumbnails for the first excerpt from the Jimmy/Aliens script, and then on Wednesday I forgot to take it in! Oh well, at least it's done.
This week in the lecture we went over more specifics of layouts, composition, field sizes. Mark emphasised the importance of pre planning in making a scene as easy as possible. He analysed a duck dodgers layout and ended up drawing it again to illustrate the process that goes into creating a layout. It was interesting to see how its done, but I can't help but wonder that if by the time (if) I make it to a professional position and might be called upon to do a layout (especially unlikely given my talent for backgrounds) that it wouldn't all be done digitally by then. Certainly drawing with vectors negates most of the purpose of field sizes, although it is true that you still have to think about things like line thickness.
Mark stated that it is best to blow up your storyboard roughs rather than draw them again so that you retain the life of the drawing, which is usually most present in a rough sketch. This makes good sense, but you would have to make sure your rough drawings aren't too rough and keep in mind that someone has to do a cleaned up drawing over the top so it has to be detailed to a certain extent.
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