Maryam Mostafavi
Storyboard · Pitch deck · The making of

Yokai

[Logline — two sentences on the story, the spirits, and what the boards had to solve.]

47 boards · Storyboard Pro · pencil thumbnails
01 · Thumbnails in pencil

Worked out small first

The whole sequence drawn tiny in pencil before any clean board — composition, staging and the cut decided at thumbnail size, where it's cheap to change your mind.

Pencil on paper · thumbnail page
Yokai — pencil thumbnails
02 · A board from the sequence

The night street

One of the clean boards — the street at night, lit from the shopfronts, with the camera low.

Storyboard Pro
Yokai — night street board
03 · More from the process

Script, colour keys, roughs

[Add the artifacts Maryam has for Yokai — marked-up script pages, colour keys, rough passes — and a line on each.]

Script[add image]
Colour keys[add image]