About Our Process
PHASE 0: Script doctoring and key layout
Before we get down to work, if you want, we propose an analysis of the script. A new, fresh and experienced look at the project helps to improve it and translate it into images. After all, a storyboard is a drawn script and cinema is told with images. Let yourself be carried away by our experience and everything will go smoothly.
PHASE 1: Planning
Based on the script and the specific guidelines you provide us about your project, our team of story artists will draw a rough animatic, created with Toon Boom Storyboard Pro software. We add a pre-audio and sound effects if necessary. A supervisor reviews and adjusts the scenes that are then pitched to the director. You’ll just talk to him and we’ll coordinate the artists. Easy, right?
PHASE 2: Cleaning and painting
Our clean-up and paint artists will polish the scenes you’ve approved, adjusting the characters to model, adding different gray values if necessary and special effects like lightning, smoke, light effects… As in each phase, before reaching the client, the supervisor will check the work and adjust the details so as not to lose the essence of the initial idea.
PHASE 3: Revisions
Animation is always a race against time. Our revisionist team takes care of those adjustments at the last minute because of changes in time, dialogue, or simply because the director’s vision has changed. This ensures that the pace of the other departments is not affected, and delivery dates do not have to be postponed.
We make storyboards and animatics for all types of projects
At AUPASTUDIO, we specialize in storytelling for a variety of styles and genres.
Our extensive experience in the field has allowed us to become intimately familiar with the advantages and limitations of different techniques, whether it be 2D, 3D, stop-motion, or live action, maximizing efficiency and productivity in each scene.
The projects we enjoy the most are the purely cinematographic ones. Films with good camera staging in which the only limit is the imagination. We love classic cinema: the films of Miyazaki, Kurosawa or Hitchcock are our references.
In animation productions with limited budget, we tailor our approach to ensure cost-effectiveness without sacrificing freshness and originality. A well-executed storyboard can save a considerable amount of time and money in the total cost of a production.
We adapt to various narrative styles, ranging from pre-school, cartoony style to a more purely cinematic language.
We divide the tasks of supervision, planning and cleaning among different teams. Our coordination team ensures that the pipeline works perfectly and enables us to consistently meet agreed-upon deadlines while maintaining a high standard of quality in execution and finish.
All projects are directed and supervised by Aitor Herrero, a storyboard artist with more than 30 years of experience in the industry.
Aitor Herrero
Aitor Herrero has participated as a storyboard artist in dozens of animation projects. He began his career in 1990, creating storyboards and handling the production design for the series ‘Mimi & Mr. Bobo’ (26×26′ / MB Producciones). Since then, he has worked as a freelancer, creating storyboards for a lot of international companies.
For ten years, he balanced his professional work with teaching at spanish animation schools Primer Frame and Barreira, educating more than 200 individuals, many of whom are now accomplished professionals. He mentored a number of student short films. All of these works have achieved numerous selections and awards at international festivals.
He is also dedicated to creating projects, such as the pre-school series ‘Jasmine & Jambo,’ produced by Teidees, (which won the award for Best International Series at the Ecran Jeunesse festival in Paris, or Best ibero-american series at Quirino Awards) or ‘Urke’, an adult animation project currently in preproduction, with the support of Ibermedia Next.
In 2016, he established AupaStudio focusing on overseeing the projects.