Alt Ending

Oops! I forgot to post my beatboards for the alternate ending. Some of my best work too!... Or at least the stuff I had the most fun drawing. Something about Tigre being evil really inspired me. It was also really rewarding to finally give Frida a legitimate hero moment. Her lack of super powers made her the butt of jokes thruout the series, so it felt great to board her one moment in the sun. 

Ricky Garduno and Eddie Trigueros added tons of great stuff in their boards. Directing duities were completed excellently by Gabe Swarr.

Animales!

This was our attempt at a (mostly) silent episode - which is a really hard thing to do on a TV budget and schedule. Luckily everyone rose to the occasion. Scott Kreamer wrote a great script. Artist Sean Szeles added hilarious gags and did an amazing board. Boulder did the best TV animation of the year. And Composer Shawn Patterson did some of his finest work as well.

The Good The Bad and El Tigre

Inspired by the greates motion picture of all time, Jean Claude VanDamme's Bloodsport, The Good the Bad And El Tigre is one ofd my favorites.

We had originally wanted all El Tigre episodes to be half an hour long. After the pilot we knew that the kind of stories Jorge wanted to tell would be difficult to tell in 11 minutes. With 30, we could tell an epic story, had lots of action and relax the pacing to let the jokes breathe. The Good The Bad And El Tigre gives you a pretty good look at what we had in mind.

Mother's Glove

I had a feeling that the episode with the super sexy super hero lady would get some extra love from the fellas on the crew - both at home and in Ireland... And I was right! Everyone did an amazing job on this episode, from Sean Szeles' board, through Boulder's animation, up to Shawn Patterson's music. All top notch!

Crouching Tigre

I like all of the individual parts of this episode. The music, the script, the board, the animation - they're all really good, but they don't really come together as a whole, which, as the director, is my fault. So, appologies to everyone on this episode. But we did come back gangbusters on,"Love and War," amd Wrong and Dance!"

Grave Escape Pt 2

One great thing about digital storyboarding is that it makes it easy to experiment with lighting. The shading and color effects can be added on a separate layer behind the line art, so if they don't work out they can easily be deleted without damaging the original.

It's easy to get carried away and over render your panels. But on the flip side - you can also use tones to pull masses together out of very rough sketches

I'm just starting to get my feet wet here - but by later episodes I really dove in. Hope you like them.