Paula Assadourian

Samples of Storyboard work created for Pixar’s Turning Red. Enjoy!

Red Moon Ritual ☾

For this sequence I wanted to share some process behind the final storyboards.

Red Moon Ritual was a great experience of collaboration with the director. Domee gave the story team a brainstorming prompt that was along the lines of Mei gets rid of her Red Panda in a magical ritual that is grounded in some elements taken from Chinese culture and that feels specific to Mei and her family. After a great brainstorming session, I requested to take a stab at storyboarding the sequence because I felt so passionate towards it. We then extracted a list of beats that I beat boarded, and then storyboarded. I feel really proud of how we worked together to achieve this!

Final storyboards for the Red Moon Ritual sequence. Additional drawings by the amazing Mike Daley and Xavier Rifault! Below is a peek into the development of this scene, stage by stage:

Party Animal

Missing Out

Goodnight Panda

Teenage crisis of Panda-proportions! This scene was cut from the movie, although a version of Panda Mei calming down remains in the final version.

Thumbnails! (Click through to see a larger preview)

Mei and Ming - Brainstorm

Cautionary Tale

This scene was cut from the movie (a shorter version still remains, when Ming drives Mei out of the party), but I had a lot of fun playing with the dramatic mood and representing how bad Mei is feeling at that moment.