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Exploring Storyboarding (Design Exploration Series)

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I was looking for a specific "how to" storyboard book. I wanted to know the formatting rules and tips but this book is more about story telling and theory than practical application. I was looking for a book that I could quickly reference if I needed to know how to accurately storyboard something and this is just not that book.

It is a okay book for people really want to take a look at storyboarding, especially those concepts. You will have a clear idea about storyboarding after reading this book.
However, I am disappointed when I first open it and I never looked at it before I gave it away.
The drawings are too amateur to me. It's hard to find a good illustration by someone with 3 years serious practising in this book. I am not willing to learn by looking at those kid's drawings.

This book teaches you important aspects about storyboarding for movies/cartoons/etc. It covers everything you can think of and gives good examples and explanations. This is good for anyone thinking about directing or storyboarding.

This book tells you a lot of interesting and important things about storyboarding, but it's really a commercial textbook. It even has exercise sections and notes from the author on how teachers can use this book for lesson plans. However, like I've said, it can be useful.

I teach a digital video class and use parts of the book to talk about principles of composition and defining different types of shots. IT is pretty general but uses lots of visual examples to explain concepts.

The book is written in textbook style with questions at the end of each chapter. I found it a fun read. There are a few good short interview pages from professionals working in the field. The author offers great references to other books for drawing and anatomy, as this book deals more with the how and why storyboards are used and like the title says Exploring Storyboarding.

I picked this book up in NYU's bookstore, where it seems to be a required textbook for students. Being an independent animator, I found this book to be the best storyboarding book on the market.

The author efficiently lays out what you need to know to create compelling, industry-quality visuals for your media piece. She covers the perspective basics, sb terminology and practices, and other related industry standards like directing, lighting and photography principles - to interrelate all topics together into what one needs to know for a good storyboard.

My storyboards from this point forward are going to be much better and I'm going to go back and re-work some of my existing storyboards using the principles learned in this book.

This book is a job well done!

This book is really informative. It is a little bit "serious" but that is ok because you are really taught how to storyboard and what works. I like that there are exercises and questions at the end of each chapter. I wish my storyboard class would follow this example.

I received this book in a timely manner and it was it great shape! This saved me almost half of what I would have paid for the book at the campus bookstore. I would absolutely use this seller again!Exploring Storyboarding (Design Exploration Series)

Good introduction to storyboarding with a definite direction towards media, and many specific examples. This is NOT a book on cartooning.