Story: Stimpy's Invention Storyboard

In his blog, All Kinds Of Stuff, John Kricfalusi has been discussing how he structures his stories. It's fascinating reading, you should definitely check it out.

John generously donated the archives of Spumco to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive last year. We're still in the process of cataloging the material, but I wanted to share a particularly important item with you today.

Here is an excerpt from the original storyboard to "Stimpy's Invention". Most of this board is by Bob Camp; supplemented by a few xeroxes of layout drawings by Chris Reccardi. Take a moment and read John K's notes on how he constucts his stories... (Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four and his post on Outlining Stories) and then take a look at how the theories are implemented in this section of board.































































For more Ren & Stimpy images, see our profile of Vincent Waller and the storyboards for... Big House Blues Seq. 1, Big House Blues Seq. 2 and Big House Blues Seq. 3.

For more on cartoon writing see... Writing Cartoons: Part One- The Gag Session, Part Two- A Continuity Emerges and Part Three- Structure, Part Four- The Rough Board

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

6.12.08
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