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Moana‘s Personality Comes Through Even in the Storyboards

Moana is an extremely emotive film. It is at turns funny, thrilling, and moving, but it’s always bracingly sincere. That sincerity comes through even in the storyboards. In a new video, Disney showcases one of the movie’s most stirring moments, when Moana and her grandmother sing the song “I Am Moana”, with storyboards on the…

Movies Julie Muncy Mar 15

Parasite‘s Gorgeous Storyboards Are Being Translated and Turned Into a Truly Cinematic ‘Graphic Novel’

Parasite director Bong Joon-ho is known for visualizing the scenes in his films in fine detail, and pouring his ideas into meticulously crafted storyboards that read almost as cinematically as the final product. Given Parasite’s widespread critical acclaim, it’s no surprise that the movie’s storyboards are getting a wider international release in book form. Though…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 27

Exclusive: Watch Game of Thrones‘ Ice Wall Climb Come to Life in Storyboard Form

Great visual storytelling starts with visuals to explain the storytelling. Storyboards, for example, are used to convey the drama and how the action of a scene is going to unfold long before cameras start rolling. A new book called Game of Thrones: The Storyboards dives deep into that aspect of the hit show, with detailed…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 25

What If Doctor Who‘s Audio Adventures Were Planned Like They Were Being Made for TV?

Listening to a Doctor Who story as an audio drama and sitting down on a Saturday night (or Sunday, depending on the season!) to watch an episode of the show are very different things. But while the mediums are both different avenues of storytelling, one thing can help bring both to life: storyboarding. To celebrate…

io9 James Whitbrook May 28

These Gorgeous Game of Thrones Storyboards Offer Just a Glimpse of a Massive New Book

As Game of Thrones comes to an end, many of us find ourselves looking back to the beginning. Why did the show become so huge? What were our favorite moments? How did it all happen? Like the show itself, those are rather large questions, but the “how” is getting a suitably large answer in a…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier Mar 12

These Storyboards Reveal Another Alternate Ending to Jurassic Park (UPDATED)

The ending of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is perfect: The tension, the staging, and the turn of the Tyrannosaurus Rex from villain to hero, complete with the falling banner. It’s so good it seems impossible it could have been handled differently—but history tells us it originally was. Jurassic Park fans likely know there was at…

io9 Germain Lussier Jan 30

Seeing Film Scenes Side-By-Side with the Original Storyboard Drawings Is So Cool

In these wonderful videos by Glass Distortion, you get to see the creative process of filmmaking: you can read what was written in the script, peek at what was imagined in the storyboards, and see the finished scene that was filmed for the movie. It’s the whole sausage making of turning words on a page…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 21

Watch Black Widow and Captain America Brawl in a Battle Cut From Civil War

Civil War was packed with a bunch of crazy fight scenes, but we never really got to see best friends Black Widow and Cap square off against each other. It turns out, thought, that we almost did, according to an animatic recently released by a Marvel studios storyboard artist. Darrin Denlinger has been uploading several…

Movies James Whitbrook Jun 8

Captain America 2 Animatics Reveal An Alternate Fate For Arnim Zola

You might recall that Arnim Zola’s fate in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was rather final, after Hydra dropped a bomb on the digitised doctor’s hidden facility in an attempt to take out Cap and Black Widow. But according to these animated storyboards, that wasn’t always the case. These are a couple of weeks old,…

io9 James Whitbrook May 29

Game Of Thrones Season 4 Storyboards Include A Dragon Attack

Here’s a privileged look inside the making of Game of Thrones season four. The Making Game of Thrones blog posted a video about the process of making storyboards for the show — plus some actual storyboards from season four. Including a dragon attack, a battle against wights, and Ghost in action! First, here’s the video,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Feb 17

Reminder: J.J. Abrams’ Superman: Flyby Would Have Been Insane

If you’re unaware of the never-made J.J. Abrams’ Superman movie, you are in for a treat. Here’s a video breakdown of the insanity that could have been, including one dead and then resurrected Superman. Mr . Sunday Movies has compiled a fun little breakdown of the Superman movie that never was. Let’s all just enjoy…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 27

See The Toons Who Would Have Appeared In Roger Rabbit‘s Deleted Funeral

While Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is packed with cartoon characters from various studios, a handful of Toons didn’t make the cut. Popeye, Bluto, and others appear only in this storyboarded funeral scene. An early script for the movie include a scene in which Eddie Valiant attends Marvin Acme’s funeral. The storyboards recently popped up on…

io9 Lauren Davis May 12

Watch The Anna-Elsa Duet That Was Cut From Frozen

We’ve seen a fan animatic of “Life’s Too Short,” a duet that was ultimately cut from Frozen, but what was Disney’s actual vision for the scene? This storyboard sequence gives us a clue. These storyboards, played over the song from the Frozen soundtrack, were shown at an open lecture at the Beijing Film Academy. The…

Movies Lauren Davis May 5

Original Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan VFX Storyboards Are A Visual Feast

Part of what makes Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan such a compelling film is its incredible design and clever visuals — and these VFX storyboards, taken from the film’s Blu-ray release, show the genesis (no pun intended) of some of the most arresting shots. These storyboards come via the indispensible TrekCore — there…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 30

Thrilling Storyboards for Spielberg’s Delayed Robopocalypse Movie

Will we ever get to see Steven Spielberg’s movie of Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse? Hard to say, given Spielberg’s recent statements about the doomed model of blockbuster movies. But at least you can see some storyboards that give a few hints of how kinetic and thrilling it could be. Storyboard artist Michael Anthony Jackson posted…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 20

Shot-for-shot, storyboard breakdown of Star Wars’ Asteroid Chase scene

Do you like watching how the Star Wars sausage is made? Of course you do! Then check out this clever little video that pairs actual footage from The Empire Strikes Back with the original storyboards. It’s damn delightful. Thanks to the official Star Wars YouTube channel for putting this together. Looks like director Irvin Kershner…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 6

Storyboards reveal the climactic ending to the J.J. Abrams-scripted Superman: Flyby

A decade ago, J.J. Abrams wrote the script for Superman: Flyby, a Superman origin movie that was to be directed by Brett Ratner or McG. Although this particular film was never made, with Warner Bros. instead producing Superman Returns, storyboard and concept art for the script exist, including a blow-by-blow of the final battle’s aftermath.…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 14

Lost Jack Kirby storyboards show the insane world that could have been Argo

Ben Affleck’s hit movie Argo owes everything to a movie called Lord of Light, an adaptation of a Roger Zelazny novel. Lord of Light sat in development hell until CIA operative Tony Mendez renamed it Argo and used this insane scifi movie as a cover story to smuggle 6 Americans home from Iran. Part of…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner Feb 21

Unused storyboards show how Alien could have been more “pornographic”

While pitching his beautiful Alien horror show to 20th Century Fox, director Ridley Scott scribbled up a collection of pre-production storyboards (known to the die-hard fans as Ridleygrams). These illustrations impressed the execs so much they would not only approve the movie but double the budget from $4.5 million to a whopping $8.5 million. Check…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 20

Unused Croods storyboards are carnivorous plant-fightingly fantastic

DreamWorks’ upcoming prehistoric film The Croods may be computer animated, but it knows its traditional animation roots. Croods co-director Chris Sanders (who also directed and wrote Lilo and Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon) has been posting production art from the film, including some unused storyboards that would make fantastic animated shorts all on…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 26

storyboards

Moana‘s Personality Comes Through Even in the Storyboards

Parasite‘s Gorgeous Storyboards Are Being Translated and Turned Into a Truly Cinematic ‘Graphic Novel’

Exclusive: Watch Game of Thrones‘ Ice Wall Climb Come to Life in Storyboard Form

What If Doctor Who‘s Audio Adventures Were Planned Like They Were Being Made for TV?

These Gorgeous Game of Thrones Storyboards Offer Just a Glimpse of a Massive New Book

These Storyboards Reveal Another Alternate Ending to Jurassic Park (UPDATED)

Seeing Film Scenes Side-By-Side with the Original Storyboard Drawings Is So Cool

Watch Black Widow and Captain America Brawl in a Battle Cut From Civil War

Captain America 2 Animatics Reveal An Alternate Fate For Arnim Zola

Game Of Thrones Season 4 Storyboards Include A Dragon Attack

Reminder: J.J. Abrams’ Superman: Flyby Would Have Been Insane

See The Toons Who Would Have Appeared In Roger Rabbit‘s Deleted Funeral

Watch The Anna-Elsa Duet That Was Cut From Frozen

Original Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan VFX Storyboards Are A Visual Feast

Thrilling Storyboards for Spielberg’s Delayed Robopocalypse Movie

Shot-for-shot, storyboard breakdown of Star Wars’ Asteroid Chase scene

Storyboards reveal the climactic ending to the J.J. Abrams-scripted Superman: Flyby

Lost Jack Kirby storyboards show the insane world that could have been Argo

Unused storyboards show how Alien could have been more “pornographic”

Unused Croods storyboards are carnivorous plant-fightingly fantastic

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