A day in the life of…
Baby on board We discover how the storyboard artist balances his work with raising a young child at home
“Our toddler has me up by 6.30am. I feed him, feed the dog, then go for a walk. I sit down about 8am and check emails, then it’s drawing time! That could be roughing in a sequence, cleaning up one that I’ve roughed, or addressing notes on a sequence I’ve turned in. I may also have meetings scattered throughout the day.
Pre-baby I worked all day; just nonstop. Now my day orbits around the toddler. I take lunch around 11am, and by the time I’ve got us fed and we’ve done a dog walk, it’s been an hour.
I prefer to work on one thing a day. Sometimes I’m balancing multiple projects, but I schedule my week so that a day is all one, and the next is another. I’ll work until I’m done with one component, or at least at a good stopping point for the day.
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