Storyboards
Every drone show I design starts as a storyboard. A brief comes in, and I turn it into a sequence: a cue sheet timed to the soundtrack, then one panel per element showing what the audience sees and how it moves. Those boards are what the client reviews and approves, round by round, before a single drone is programmed.
I've boarded shows for stadiums, city celebrations and festivals. Around twenty in 2026 alone, several in flight at once. Three of them are below.
The boards
Brisbane New Year's Eve 200 drones · Brisbane, Australia · NYE 2025
A show told in three acts, with no logos to lean on. It starts with a single point of light that drifts across the sky and pulls a trail behind it. The trails weave into a maypole, then break apart into constellations: Canis Major, Taurus, Scorpio, Sagittarius. Act two turns the star into a heartbeat that becomes a rising sun. Act three is pure celebration, a rainbow river and fireworks, and it lands on “Brisbane” and “City of Dreams.”
UT Austin Baseball Flylight · Austin, TX · 2026
The post-game show for a crowd inside the ballpark, with a separate 7th-inning-stretch piece. The board opens on a cue sheet that locks every element to a 30-second slot, then walks through the sequence: the Texas script and flag, Bevo, and a player who steps up, points his bat at the outfield, swings and slides into home. Movement is written into each panel: stop-motion frames for the pitcher, a jersey that turns to reveal “Texas,” a cap waved toward the crowd.
Kipona · Labor Day 300 drones · Harrisburg, PA · 2025
A 12-minute family show over the Susquehanna, timed track by track. The board treats the sky as a character stage: cat eyes that blink and follow the viewer, a UFO beaming up a cow, an astronaut who drifts through space and lands on a planet, disco dancers in stop motion. Each panel carries its own direction note, and the deck ends with extra ideas the client could swap in, like a T-Rex that roars toward the audience.
