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Kim Possible Storyboards Part 2

Posted on: September 12, 2010

Here’s the second and final installment of storyboards for the Kim Possible episode “Gorilla Fist” which originally aired in 2004. The action continues as Yori goes to save Ron from the grasp of an agitated Gargoyle. Kim in the latter part of the sequence battles the headless variety of the aforementioned goyles and thanks to her advanced cheerleading skills, she manages to be victorious.

Again, I added some post-scan Photoshop tones for clarity and legibility. One important tidbit is the fact that I rarely did underdrawings to help battle pencil mileage, . I would visualize key images and a rough choreography in my head and board directly. In television, time is a premium so any chance you get to reduce the amount of drawing is an advantage. By this time after boarding on this show for several seasons, I was in a bit of a zone where I didn’t need to look at models or layouts so that was a plus.

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Kim Possible Storyboards Part 1

Posted on: September 10, 2010

From the archives I bring you another sampling of television storyboards, this time from Disney’s KIM POSSIBLE. These following sets of boards are from an episode called “Gorilla Fist” which was part of Season 3. (Around 2004)

We pick up the story in the middle of an action sequence where Kim Possible, Rufus, (The naked mole rat) Ron Stoppable and his Japanese gal-pal Yori are battling gargantuan Gargoyles who have just come to life, and are intent on kicking their butts into next week. During this juncture in the series, Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley, the show creators had started to introduce the notion of a Kim Possible/Ron Stoppable love affair. Something that fully develops in Season 4. The production boards where done in pencil. I boarded on small panels 2/3 the size of the original to reduce pencil mileage. (at 2 panels per page, the boards for half a show can balloon to about 500 to sometimes 700 plus pages) Doing it smaller also provided for a better line quality. Then by copier, the pages are blown back up to 100 percent. Of course, this was pre-digital so it’s old school compared to today’s standards… For legibility’s sake I added some tone and shading to certain panels via Photoshop CS3 after I scanned these in.

At the end of these pages, Kim discovers that the dismembered Gargoyles are even trickier to defeat… I’ll present the latter parts of this sequence plus the conclusion in subsequent posts.