storyboarding

His meticulous storyboarding process is legendary, with hand-drawn sequences planned frame-by-frame before animation begins, making storyboarding central to his visual storytelling.

He pioneered the practice of exhaustively storyboarding every shot before filming, treating cinema as a precisely orchestrated visual puzzle rather than improvisation.

His background in advertising and design informs his obsessive pre-visualization through detailed storyboards that dictate every compositional and narrative element.