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Animation - Dean DeBlois

Team Deakins

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How Did You Find Your First Job as a Storyboard Artist?

I was a background designer. I would design up the backgrounds for the characters to be placed against that would be later painted by background artists, background painters. Later I started doing character designs, and finally, before I left the Don Bluth Studio, I became his storyboard assistant. That's really where it all came together for me, because I felt like I was able to direct my own little mini parts of the film. And then right after Lila and Stitch, what did you do? I had a hopper of ideas, about 20 ideas that I had been working on, and most of them were live action in my mind. So I put together pitch packages for a

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