Where a storyboard artist can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a storyboard artist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Storyboard artists draw out the scenes of a motion picture or television series according to the script in order to see what will be possible during production. They work together with the producer and video and motion picture director.
Also known as storyboard revisionist, storyboard and animatic artist, story-boarder, storyboard & animatic artist, storyboarder, storyboard artist and revisionist, storyboard artist & revisionist, storyboard illustrator, story boarder.
Professionals 33 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: cartoonist, 56%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A storyboard artist needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- present storyboard communication, collaboration and creativity
- use storyboards communication, collaboration and creativity
- consult with motion picture producer communication, collaboration and creativity
- select illustration styles communication, collaboration and creativity
- familiarise with personal directing styles communication, collaboration and creativity
- study media sources information skills
- consult with production director communication, collaboration and creativity
- manage feedback communication, collaboration and creativity
- film production process arts and humanities
- adapt to type of media communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a storyboard artist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- animator 52% covered · difficulty 50.2
- cartoonist 49% covered · difficulty 53.2
- special effects artist 44% covered · difficulty 57.5
- director of photography 39% covered · difficulty 60.8
- animation layout artist 38% covered · difficulty 62.1
- script writer 38% covered · difficulty 62.9
- illustrator 35% covered · difficulty 65.1
- video and motion picture director 33% covered · difficulty 66.3
- stop-motion animator 30% covered · difficulty 68.8
- casting director 20% covered · difficulty 76
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Storyboard artist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a storyboard artist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.