Life On Let's Go Luna - Our Storyboard Process

Here we are kicking off our first storyboard pitch for season 2!

Pictured from the Left: Michelle Rincon (Production Assistant), Me, Luccy Baillie (Writer and Production Coordinator), Joe Murray (Creator of Let’s Go Luna, Camp Lazlo and Rocko’s Modern Life), Peter Hannon (Writer/ Songwriter and Creator of Catdog), and Keith Silva (Storyboard Artist / Partner-In-Crime).

I’ve been on the show for a few months now and I can honestly say I love what I do and the people I work with. It is such a blessing to look forward to going to work. I wanted to write about what I do since it’s an outline-driven show and structured a little differently than most shows.

Our Production Flow:

My teammate Keith and I get 3 weeks to board an 11 min episode. We get an outline of the story with the curriculum and advisor notes and areas to research. If you haven’t seen the show, it follows kids who’s parent are in a traveling circus and they go all over the world with Luna the moon and learn about new cultures. It’s honestly a really fun show to work on, because you’re constantly learning about new places and we try to make it really funny and entertaining.

We take the outline, do our research and then Keith and I will split up the episode and go to town. There’s a lot of creative freedom since it’s not script-driven (where everything is already figured out) and we get to figure out how to get the story from A to B and help with the writing and dialogue. Every episode has a song and that’s the only thing we will time out our drawings to and play as a rough animatic for our pitch meetings.

The first week we focus on the story with rough board. Second week is revisions and adding more gags. Third week is final revisions, clean up and adding the finishing touches. We pitch pretty much every week so we’re always working on shaping the episode and making it the best it can be. After the third week we turn in our board files and do it all over again.

I’ll be able to share some of my work once the episodes air, but until then I’ll just wait here with excitement!