Coyote & Turkey Storyboards
Storyboard Artist | Writer
American Animation Institute
2016
Project Synopsis
This was a storyboard project taken on as a class assignment. We were supposed to take an old folktale and interpret it in our own way. I chose a Natuve American folktale entitled “Coyote and Turkey,” about how Turkey outsmarts Coyote, who wants to eat her.
It was a great fun time learning from the great Karl Gnass, and an excellent foundational understanding of the art of storyboarding.
STORYBOARDS
Taking a small folktale and turning it into a larger story was a great exercise to get my mind and drawing hand wrapped around how to translate something from the page into visuals. My reimagining of Coyote as a trailer park bum and Old Turkey as a sweet old grandma was my first stint of inspiration. When I realized I wanted to tell a story that rhymed, like a children’s storybook, I realized I was in for an even deeper challenge!
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