Character
Squirrel studies
Gesture pages drawn for the lead — how a squirrel sits, grips, startles and runs — so the boards could move it with confidence.
Brush pen and pencil
Storyboard · Hand-drawn cel animation · The making of
NutJob
A hand-drawn cel animation project — a squirrel's heist, boarded from the marked-up script through first-pass pencil thumbnails to the clean deck, with the squirrel studies that fed it.
78 boards · hand-drawn cel animation · Storyboard Pro · pencil thumbnails
The film
NutJob, in motion
Hand-drawn cel animation · 0:49
Script → thumbnails → boards
Three passes
1 · The script, marked up
Beats, cuts and camera notes written straight onto the pages.
2 · Pencil thumbnails, first pass
The sequence worked out small — staging and the cut before any clean drawing.
3 · First draft of the boards
The rough deck, before clean-up — most of the staging survives into the final 78 boards.
