So! That previous picture was of course made by me, but I’m happy to see that some people thought it might be an actual leaked storyboard - since my goal was to make it look as “authentic” as possible.

Above are the steps to making it look like a photographed screen. First up is the original digital drawing made with my usual pencil brush. Then I put a blue gradient (set to “multiply”) and a grain filter above it. Flattened the picture and skewed it (added black background), put a motion blur filter on it (2 times on two layers and erased through so it wouldn’t be the same blurriness everywhere). And finally added a white-to-black gradient on top, set to “overlay” and on lowered opacity, for that flash effect.

I tried to make it look like the animatic storyboards we’ve seen so far and avoid my own style, but alas, some things just shine through. On one hand, good for recognition, on the other, bad if i don’t want to be recognized. Oh well.

The dialogue and actions are a slightly modified version of a scene from the latest episode of TMNT 2012 (as some have noticed), because it was pretty cute and I thought that if they’re ever gonna imply more Sparity in the show (oh please!), this would work perfectly.

If anyone wants to animate or cleanup the whole thing, feel free to do so XD

And since some people speculated if I might be working with the show now…I wish! Still the same starving freelance artist.