CHARACTER ANIMATOR | Story Artist
atrick Thompson
Story Art
Korolev, Mars
In 2020, I took a pair of storyboarding workshops at Animation Mentor with Mike Kunkel. Over the course of the Intermediate Storyboarding workshop, we started to develop our own stories, with our final assignment being a sequence from said story. My story is called Korolev, Mars.
In the distant future, mankind has begun colonizing other worlds. Astronaut Brock Murphy returns from a survey mission of one of Saturn's moons, his spacecraft has explosion, damaging his oxygen tank and forcing him to land at Korolev, Mars, an old abandoned mining colony built into Mars' Korolev crater. Desperate to find a replacement oxygen tank, Murphy must explore the town and finally, the mine itself to find the parts and make it back home. In this sequence, Murphy first enters the mine and traverses it until he finds dangerous new obstacles.
The Wizard and the Frog
As part of storyboarding fundamentals workshop, we were taught about gags and humor in a storyboard. This assignment was an exercise to implement these lessons, with the prompt being a wizard who wants to transform a mushroom into a frog but keeps having problems along the way.
Pirates
This was the final assignment for the storyboarding fundamentals workshop, serving as a culmination of what we learned over the course of the workshop.
The Golden Koi
This was an assignment done during the Intermediate Storyboarding workshop, focusing on how to build tension in a sequence.