Animation Storyboards
I love the incredible breadth and width of possible stories that can be told thanks to the amazing medium of animation, from the curriculum-centric pre-school sector to the action-packed primetime adult scene and everything in between. Below, you’ll find original and studio work that demonstrates how I can draw stories for your next production.
Roswell or Bust
Story & Art: Chad Welson
Genre: Action/Comedy
Based on a newspaper comic strip I created as a child, Roswell or Bust tells the story of first contact gone awry and the consequences our judgments can bring upon us.
Dragons:
The Nine Realms
DreamWorks Animation
Genre: Action/Adventure
Supervising Director:
Allan Jacobsen
Supervising Producer:
Beth Sleven
Set 1,300 years after the events of “How to Train Your Dragon,” dragons are now just a legend to the modern world. When a geological anomaly opens an immense, miles-deep fissure in the Earth’s surface, scientists from all over the world gather at a new research facility to study the mysterious phenomenon. Soon after, a group of misfit kids uncovers the truth about where dragons have been hiding — a secret they must keep to protect what they’ve discovered.
I had the pleasure to do storyboards, revisions, and flex some directorial muscles while at DreamWorks on Dragons: The Nine Realms.
As an avid martial artist, Jun Wong is one of my favorite characters on Dragons. We we received notes to give Jun’s fight scene some attention, and I was happy to make it a little more striking (pun intended).
Additional Storyboard Revisionists:
Tong Bui
This was one of the most rewarding sequences I ever worked on. After extensive network and executive notes on the emotional climax of this episode, I worked with the writer and Supervising Director to rebuild the sequence from the ground up and give a major character a final emotional send off.
Additional Storyboard Revisionists:
Calvin Leung, Lauren Krieger
End Credits Storybeat Illustrations
Life with Pumpernickel
Nickelodeon
Genre: Comedy
Created by Max Beaudry
Directed by Chad Welson & Allan Jacobsen
Doodle Master Angelo “Angie” D’Addino designs his perfect best friend and a wayward wish accidentally brings him to life! Unfortunately, Angie had trouble visualizing common sense, so shenanigans ensue. An original pitch for the Nick Shorts program, Created by Max Beaudry, Directed by Chad Welson and Allan Jacobsen.
Memory Man
Genre: Action/Drama
Story & Art: Chad Welson
When a rogue asteroid threatens mass extinction, a pessimistic neurologist is tapped by the government to treat the world’s last hope: an ancient, immortal super hero long lost to dementia; but when her highly advanced treatments yield no results, she must search for answers in the archived relics of his archenemy for a glimmer of hope to stop the imminent destruction of her world.
School Assembly
Genre: Action/Comedy
Story and Art by Chad Welson
A shy gamer’s most prized possession becomes a sullied casualty after he is targeted by the school bully, but he soon proves that he reads more than maps and monster manuals on his magical quest for vengeance.
Awesomesauce!
Genre: Action/Comedy
Story and Art by Chad Welson
While on an epic quest for friendship, young science student Leroy Lincoln accidentally unleashes a giant monster on his school and must take superheroic action to clean up his mess.
About Chad
As a precocious child with an overactive imagination raised on a steady diet of Saturday Morning Cartoons and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, I spent my childhood either trying to acquire superpowers or provoking one of the local werewolves into biting me (quickly failing at one and deeply regretting the other).
Now, as an adult with an overactive imagination, I’ve had the pleasure of crafting everything from interactive ice sculpture exhibits based on Frosty the Snowman to virtual reality experiences for Microsoft on the floor of the Game Developers Conference. After all of those amazing adventures, I returned to my first love of animation and now hang my cape at DreamWorks Animation Television as a Storyboard Artist and Revisionist on Dragons: The Nine Realms!
Thanks to a discipline of life-long learning and inherent, endless curiosity, I love telling stories in challenging and unique mediums and I would adore the opportunity to bring my experiences to your production next.
Fair warning: Full Moons are still a problem.
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