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I had the chance to interview OneHandClapping’s Christian DeVita, the lead storyboard artist for Wes Anderson’s stop motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. Here is the interview, along with several of Christian’s storyboards, sketches, and even some of director Wes Anderson’s thumbnails.

Drawn!: Tell me a little about your involvement in the production of Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Christian DeVita: I was the lead storyboard artist on the movie. I was drafted in early in the production (Sep 2007) along with other 6 artists.

We went through a few passes of the scenes, based on some thumbnails that Wes drew, before he decided he wanted to work closely with one of us in Paris. The animation studio and sets were in East London’s Three Mills studios.

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One of the most impressive illustrators working in film production today is Rodolfo Damaggio.

Damaggio worked as a comic book artist for DC in the 1990’s before moving on to do concept art and storyboards for such summer blockbusters as MI3, Lemony Snicket’s SoUE, Hidalgo, Indiana Jones 4, and Fantastic Four “Rise of the Silver Surfer”, among many others.  Pouring through Damaggio’s website will leave you feeling a little overwhelmed by his stunning sense of cinematic perspective – not to mention his rock-solid drawing and painting skills.  This guy is good.

A slightly cheesy but interesting-none-the-less 10-minute overview of storyboarding – mainly from a Disney perspective.

via Presentation Zen

UPDATE: From the comments: “What luck to find such an inspirational video on DRAWN this morning. Oh, and our team is looking for some good story artists, please visit Wijio Worldwide Studios for more info.”

A long time ago, in a storyboard far, far away…

Matt Jones, who was previously featured on Drawn here, has posted several storyboards and studies that he did while working on the recent Academy Award Nominated Feature, Corpse Bride.