Maryam Mostafavi

Storyboard

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Original comedy pitch · 110 boards

Bar Gang

Rough-to-clean boards for an original comedy — staging, screen direction and the timing beats laid out in Storyboard Pro over Blender-blocked sets. The main sequence opens on the bar's neon sign and follows the balloon down to the rats.

Storyboard Pro · Blender sets · TVPaint animation tests
Pitch deck · 47 boards

Yokai

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

Storyboard Pro · pencil thumbnails · [year]
Pitch deck · 117 boards

Big Jack

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

Storyboard Pro · [year]
Hand-drawn cel animation · 78 boards

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.

Hand-drawn cel animation · Storyboard Pro · pencil thumbnails · [year]
Colour-key thumbnails

Solomon

Colour-key thumbnails — the lighting and palette of each beat worked out small before anything is drawn large.

Digital paint · [year]
Solomon — colour-key thumbnails