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How to Prepare your Portfolio,
Portfolio literally means a set of pieces of work collected by someone as an example of his or her skills for presenting the same to recruiter with an aim to prove his expertise and skills in the respective field. To certain extent, your selection or acceptance of your work depends on how you project your work in your portfolio. In this sense, your portfolio acts as an evidence of your talent and capability.

Portfolio preparation is an art in itself. To begin with, it is important to understand that it has to be prepared keeping in view the nature of the job you are applying for. Selection of work done by you should convince the recruiter that your talent is in accordance with the organization's requirements.

For instance, if a company is hiring a storyboard artist, it is wrong to load up your portfolio with lots of colours because the job doesn't demand that. Storyboard artist is required to communicate detailed information to all the artists who are working on the project. He/ she needs to give description about background sketches, incidental characters, animation poses and the necessary camera description. Therefore, your portfolio requires more expressive drawing than colors. This way, portfolio parameters differentiate according to the job description Let's understand it properly:

Storyboard Artist's Portfolio
Storyboard means, "a sequence of drawing representing the shotsplanned for a film or television scripts" i.e. a shot-by-shot illustration of an animated film. Storyboard is a special section where the story is told and the basic outline of the film is designed. Storyboard artist's job demands communicating detailed information to the artists, generally preparing background sketches, incidental characters and prop designs, animation poses and camera description.

Accordingly, the most comprehensive portfolio for this job requires some pieces of good drawing, a few background and character designs and several composition set-ups. Animal sketches are always a good demonstration of expressive drawing. As storyboards are generally done from scripts or detailed story outlines, samples of similar tests of storyboards would be quite appropriate.

 

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