VOZART

As the selection of my boards from the Chronicles of Narnia films  below will demonstrate, storyboards can be executed in the form of the simplest doodles to finished illustration. How far you take the drawing process is of much less importance than the information you are trying to express. I was amused to read somewhere that often a separate crew of board artists were sometimes used expressly to create boards to be used only in "The Making Of" books that would be merchandised with blockbuster films. I don't know if I ever heard that confirmed. In the first drawing below there were some corrections needed on a section in the first film where Lucy meets Mr. Tumnus. I quickly thumbnailed my suggestions and showed them to the director who approved them. Often I would do entire scenes in a series of scribbles like this and talk them over with director Andrew Adamson before I took them to a series of cleaned up drawings like the tonal ones on the right.  While deadlines are u...

 As a youngster one of my biggest influences was Frank Frazetta. So given the chance to draw the Edgar Rice Burrough's character John Carter of Mars in the comics was a great chance to bring in as much of Frazetta's  influence as possible...or you can simply interpret as that as swiping as many of his drawings as possible when I was drawing the issues. lol. Here are the pencils for the last issue that Marvel did of the book. (And following the great Gil Kane on tbis series was no simple task either.)  Best, Mike  Next week a new Vozart story. Join us then.