Published: October 28, 2025
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Rather than merely dunking on bad takes. Let's do some craft. Here's what a storyboard usually looks like. Broadly, film-making thinks of the visual in a single "frame" - notice how the frame doesn't change in the storyboards.

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The narrative is shown through sequential art but isn't particularly concerned with juxtaposition. What appears next to what is not much of a factor. Instead, composition, staging, movement, shot selection, angles become dominant concerns.

There is some passage of "time" but largely, the visual cadence of the shot is not dictated. It'll be up to the director, DOP, actors/acting to sort that in the making of the film. The film dictates its own passage of time and so, there is largely no "reading" involed.

This is a comic book page. In comics, there are multiple units of storytelling happening at once. The panel, the page, the spread. You see the spread first. Then you see a page. THEN you read a panel.

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The preoccupation here, is with composing a page. Not a singular frame. So, what goes next to what matters. Panel height, width, gutter space dictate time and visual cadence. Add to that the juxtaposition of text on art. How you read the text v/s how you read the art, matters.

Watching v/s Reading - changes the considerations of the medium entirely. You then start using things like non-sequitur transitions. Or visual repetition. Panel width and height to insinuate time. Placed alongside soundeffects you can even insinuate rhythm.

The artist is no longer just visually interpreting a script. Here, the artist's job is to actively tell the story to the reader. The art on the page must invite, almost visually urge the reader to read in the cadence that is intended.

Not to mention acting and emotion is also transmitted alongside all of the above considerations. There are a LOT more active storytelling choices on a comic page. In a film those lie elsewhere. Though a good storyboard artist will insinuate some of it in the work.

Comics is an inherrently complex and intelligent art form. Don't be dumb.

@therightram What you're saying is... people need to better understand comics?

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There’s something poetic about this. Monsters who deny humanity are the first to cry “we’re humans, too” when their cruelty is returned to them.

I still see his chest moving a little

“We’re human beings!” “No. You are roaches. Only one way to deal with those.” holy fuck

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These are the "people" You're calling average americans btw. Self report much?

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