I’ve been working on learning more about storyboarding this past month, and haven’t done as much directly with “Blue Blazes,” but I’m finally back on track, and will have some new storyboards to show in the next couple of weeks. I need to make sure that I have all my characters designed, though, and finally had a breakthrough on Mary Cummings, sister of the dingbat Tom Andrews, who suggests the specific cure to “release the fire from the belly of the mare.” She is basically Tom’s head, but with a scowl and a bonnet:
Here are some shots of the basic maquette of Mary Cummings: