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Mikey Crotty's avatar

Another fascinating piece; there's probably a book in the subject (if there isn't already one). Scott's storyboards for all his flicks are famous; they're know as 'Ridleygrams', he went to art college before he transitioned into film-making (through advertising). Same with James Cameron who didn't 'just' do Storyboards; he did the actual 'Rose sketch' for Titanic and IIRC the first Avatar promo art (close up illustration of Navi eye). The link between Comic narrative and storyboards is massive; look at all the comic artists who work between the 2; Steranko on 'Raiders', Jock on 'Batman & Dredd', Fegredo on 'Noah', Chris Weston on multiple projects. And that's without even looking at the Comic Artists who also do concepts; like yourself, McCarthy, Weston, Glyn Dillon, Guy Davis. Make sure you check out 'MEZOLITH'; 2 volumes of stunning comics by Adam Brockbank who's primarily a film concept artist.

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Jason Latour's avatar

Oh yeah, it was definitely a (failed) effort in restraint to keep this kind of focused around the ALIEN movies. Love and respect and even know a lot of those folks. Can, and will, write more about this. And will definitely try to track down that book. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Mikey Crotty's avatar

Even for now just Google 'Brockbank Mezolith' & check out some of the 'images'; weirdly it's the series I think MOST resonates with what your doing in 'Big Shoes'!

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Mr. Eugene Oregon's avatar

Alien 3 is (kinda, almost) the shit.

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Jason Latour's avatar

I kinda, sorta agree.

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