I storyboarded for three seasons on Pinky Malinky, Nickelodeon’s mockumentary about a relentlessly upbeat hot dog trying to survive middle school. Because it was a board-driven show, storyboarding meant writing, directing, and performing storyboard pitches for execs.
Here's one of my favorite little sequences from an episode that never got animated:
In the beginning of each episode, Pinky would invariably start acting weird, indicating he'd gotten a wacky idea that would soon set the story into motion.
The gags started small; early on he'd turn into an angel and flap his wings while strumming a harp and singing his brilliant new scheme. Simple stuff. Soon the story team all started to go bigger and bigger (and more subversive) with the gags. He'd turn into a tornado, or a giant Akira-style bulging monstrosity.
But by the end of the series run, I wanted to do something ambitious. Something truly unhinged.
So I had him turn into a door for his pal Babs; a portal to a heretofore-unseen PinkyLand, a bizarre world where every single object and inhabitant looked like Pinky. As Babs gawks, the grotesque creatures of Pinkyland all cry, "idea!" before Pinky himself appears and casually explains that he's got an idea.
Check out some of my episodes on Netflix! I boarded "Snack," "Mannequin," "Hangout," "Voice," "Phone," "Double," "Brain," "Trophy," "King," and "Fundraiser"
Alongside my work on Pinky and other storyboarding gigs, I also boarded an original pitch for a show called Safety Pigs— a sweet, goofy show where pig superheroes bumbled around, working to protect their island home of San Porcini from an extradimensional reptilian threat. Enjoy!