STORYBOARDING

This is a comic strip I originally created for NEWTYPE KOREA magazine - I do a monthly column for them outlining various aspects of the American animation industry. This particular strip was the illustration to a column I wrote explaining storyboarding.
Generally speaking, before any cameras are turned on or any animators start animating, some poor schmuck works for months on end with no sleep to create the 'visual blueprint' of the film or show - what results is a storyboard (along with hair loss, back-pains, chronic migranes, etc.).
Storyboarding is, in my utterly self-rightous opinion, the backbone of the animation industry if not the entire entertainment industry. Obviously, I'm biased in that regard since the better part of my career has been spent as a storyboard artist.
The fact is, in collaborative mediums, everyone's contributions are monumentally indispensible... so don't think I'm intentionally being a douche... but what I CAN say with complete objectivity is that I've held a lot of different jobs in my life (both in animation and in other areas) and storyboarding is by far the most taxing.
Right now I'm working as a director and I thank my lucky stars that I don't have to do it nearly as much as I used to.
It's one of the career paths for an animation artist with the most amount of creative input on the overall finished film, but it's also a gargantuan pain in the anus.
Thus, this strip.