Fanboy and Chum Chum

“Trading Day” Storyboard

Tomorrow night, Friday, November 6, at 9:00 p.m. on Nickelodeon you’ll get your first chance to see a full half-hour episode of Fanboy and Chum Chum (you’ll get another new episode Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m.). Included are two eleven-minute shorts, “Wizboy” and “Trading Day”. We’ve already posted title cards, the storyboard, a bit of the animatic, and designs from the former, but we present now Niki Yang’s storyboard and Scott Kreamer’s script of the latter.

FB 105 Trading Day

– Eric

Episode #145. Written by Scottt Kreamer. Storyboard by Niki Yang.

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While a finished, rendered CG image is a bit away from completion, I figured I’d post a bunch of concept art for Yo’s bedroom from episode #138, “The Incredible Shrinking Fanboy”. The work began when Eric Robles, to whom girls’ bedrooms are unknown territory, asked Niki Yang to come up with a few ideas for the look of Yo’s room. Here you can see a pair of Niki’s original rough concepts, followed by Eric’s somewhat less roughs, and wrapped up with Caesar Martinez’s clean-ups. Then there’s Caesar’s overhead turn to help the CG group figure out what goes where (and which pieces can be re-u$ed from previous episodes). Chucked in at the bottom are also a few elements drawn by Caesar and colored Chad Woods with a little help from Kyle Neswald. The color on Caesar’s image above is also by Chad.

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Episode #139. Written by Scott Kreamer, boarded by Niki Yang.

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Episode #133. Written by Eric Horsted. Board by Niki Yang and Eddie Trigueros.

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Storyboard by Niki Yang, written by Eric Horsted.

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Niki Yang

If you’re like we are, you’re already a big fan of Niki Yang from her Random! Cartoons shorts, “Two Witch Sisters” and “Victor the Delivery Dog”. Since March, this Seoul-born artist has been busy storyboarding for Fanboy and Chum Chum. She took a break from her drawing responsibilities to answer a few questions for the blog.

Frederator: What was your favorite cartoon growing up as a kid?

Niki: Miyazaki’s early work such as Conan, the Boy in Future, Anne of Green Gables, A Dog of Flanders, Little Nemo, Tezuka’s Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion and some more animations which I lost in translation…

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Niki Yang’s storyboard for episode #124, “Night Morning”, written by Eric Horsted.

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Fanboy and Chum Chum storyboard for episode #118, “Brain Drain”, written by Scott Kreamer and storyboarded by Niki Yang. As always, click through for larger sizes.

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Storyboard by Niki Yang. Mr Mufflin laying down some 1640 Massachusetts law.

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