tealin | Toby Shelton (Reply)

Toby Shelton is a story artist here in LA; he seems to have done most of his work at Dreamworks but we were lucky to have him on Frog for a bit. I thought his boards were some of the best in the movie (in fact some of them were better than the final movie ended up being) and there's no doubt he does consistently very appealing drawings. He's a master of distilling a moment and state of mind into as few and as expressive lines as possible. They're all really rough drawings, but they don't need to be tied down, because they contain (or suggest) all the information that needs to be there.

I know I should be keeping up with his blog but I'm not very good at non-LJ blogs ... anyway, I just went back, and discovered he's got great little entries on hands and eyes, which several people have asked me about. Check it out! He knows his stuff.