Introduce Yourself : Reaching out to Screenwriters who want to animate / storyboard their work. I'm Steve Payne. :) by Steve Scifi

Steven - I have to say you have one of the BEST Stage 32 profiles I have ever seen (and I've seen a lot!) Your bio is well thought out - I can't imagine anyone that wouldn't want to work with you based on the professionalism and sincere human touch you put into it. Love your top 7 values. Plus, your photos are beautiful and well labeled and thought out, and your reel is an incredible showcase of your background in both your web series and video games. To anyone in my network that needs animation or storyboard - checkout Steve - absolute professional.

I have to agree with Julie here. Just brilliant all the way around.

Thanks so much Richard and Julie - a real encouragement. Well I hope to share my journey in a very practical way for other screenwriters to at least get their screenplay made into a storyboard without relying on anyone else. :) I'll post the series here as well if that's ok.

That would be terrific, Steve!

Thanks very much Richard. Here is part 1 - an introduction to the series. https://www.stage32.com/media/1269143915445890173

This is simply too cool, Steve! Awesome!

Thanks Richard. Perhaps we'll see some more movies made off the back of screenwriters prepared to go the extra mile and show their concepts visually? I'll make another one tomorrow and post it here.

In this DIY world, more and more screenwriters are taking matters into their own hands. It's something I talk about often on On Stage With RB.

Yes indeed. I've watched On stage with RB all the way back to Feb of this year (I joined in July). Tons of great info. Thanks so much. For anyone else reading this thread I encourage you to view the back catalogue. I'm going to put the tutorial series under the screenwriting category as that's the intended audience. :)

Very kind of you, Steve, and I thank you for sharing your experiences here. Looking forward to the next one tomorrow! Some great guests on tap!

FYI Richard. The 3D Animation/Storyboard Screenwriters thread. Could be a long one. lol. https://www.stage32.com/lounge/screenwriting/3D-Animation-Storyboarding-...

Love it, Steve...

Definitely like this approach to fleshing out ideas. Thanks for sharing Steve!

Thanks Rene. If you break a problem down it its constituent parts it suddenly doesn't seem so impossible.

I take it you're talking about for animated projects. I find for live actionn projects doing a reading with great actors, videoing it then cutting that down to a sizzle reel is really effective.

@Bill Hi there. I'm talking to screenwriters who are frustrated that their project is not being made visually, and showing them how to at least storyboard it, perhaps even animate it, in order to "prove the concept", and/or get noticed in a different way from only submitting/pitching a script. :)

Interesting. I'm out of advertising where storyboards are everything. And when I got into television and script writing -- I always felt something was lacking by not having storyboards for scripts.