THE ART OF TURBO: OR AT LEAST SOME STORYBOARDS I DREW...

It's time to find out what happens when an ordinary garden snail enters the Indy 500!  Turbo is in theaters!  I worked on it for about a year.  It was a labor of love for director David Soren, and he had the amazing talents of folks like Shannon Tindle, Rich Daskas, Andy Schuhler, Toby Shelton, Sharon Bridgeman Lukic among many others to help him realize his personal little story come to life the big screen.  It's bright, fast, funny, bizzare and has snails that look like the coolest Muppets never made.

These boards were from a sequence I worked on where Turbo, is being outfitted for the race by the human shopkeepers who have put all of their businesses on the line in the hopes of scoring big with Turbo's win at the Indy.  I was tasked with finding ways that each of the humans could add something personal to help Turbo achieve his goal. I wanted to start the sequence out abstractly, with seemingly disconnected images of a treadmill, a hairdryer, and a car interior, so you were a bit unsure of what was going on, until it was revealed as means to test Turbo's new found speed and to see what adjustments would be needed to help him race.

 Here's part 1. (-first panel drawn by Sharon Bridgeman Lukic)