Mike Ploog was the initial story-board designer for the movie "The Thing" which is one of my favourite films.
Ploog manages to create life and motion within his storyboards by using angles, shadows and a sense of motion from the characters. He tends to use arrows that become part of the detailed sketches themselves. Mike Ploog also manages to create depth and surroundings through the detail he put into creating backgrounds for the characters to play off.
From the looks of things, he did an excellent job translating the script into visual, dramatic and detailed shots for the production crew to work off. Ploog presents extremely clear instructions within his story-boards, which obviously helped the production crew of the film because if you compare the storyboards to the shots in the movie, you can see a clear comparison. As proven here. As an avid fan of the movie, his style seemed to of inspired the aesthetic look of the overall film. He was heavily involved in the making of the film, most notably the storyboard starting point.
Overall, I particularly enjoy his storyboards mainly because they are drastically different to the typical cartoon style that is usually associated with storyboards, which is mainly down to his personal style and also because the storyboard was for a film. Ploog's contain great detail and shading to portray a theatrical vibe, and as stand alone pieces, they could be classed as a work of art.
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