Biography

Attended Glasgow School of Art.

Drew comics for Marvel.

I was on a film once where someone was counting the heads of people in crowd scenes I'd drawn to know how many extras to hire. I was stunned when I heard that. I was just randomly drawing people to fill up the panels. There's a guy I know who actually puts a disclaimer on the front page of his storyboards saying that these are a guide. Costumes may not look like this. Hairstyles may not look like this. These aren't like the Bible!

I try to make my storyboards a good read when I'm drawing. I think it may be from when I drew comics. There's a pacing in comics, and you're always aware of the person turning the page. You know, a really big moment in the comic, you'll turn the page and it'll be a big double-page splash panel for full impact. And I still try and do that sometimes. I will give expressions to people's faces. I will put in a wee bit of extra detail here and there just to sell the sequence. I try and make it so that you get a sense of the speed and the mood and the emotion of each sequence from my boards.