Artist Mike Collins has shown off some of the storyboards he created for the Doctor Who episode, ‘Oxygen’.
It’s taken a while for us to come across these (we eventually got there, courtesy of a post by @girlyletters), but in a series of tweets from a few days back artist Mike Collins offered up a behind the scenes glimpse of the planning for the excellent Doctor Who series 10 episode, ‘Oxygen’.
His posts show the work that went into storyboarding the Jamie Mathieson-scripted episode’s tense action, back when it appears to have been going under the name ‘Zero Hour’, and his lovely artwork too. Each post contained a series of images, and here they are…
Opening scenes from Saturday’s chilling #DoctorWho by @Jamti with @Pearlie_mack and #PeterCapaldi pic.twitter.com/5wuaHqYQqx
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
more storyboards from @Jamti #oxygen episode of #DoctorWho @bbcdoctorwho @DoctorWho_BBCA pic.twitter.com/6EXs1pWshO
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
last of the opening scenes from @Jamti ‘s brilliant #oxygen episode of @bbcdoctorwho @DoctorWho_BBCA #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/pw8Um3htIu
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
More frames from @Jamti ‘s excellent #oxygen episode of #DoctorWho @bbcdoctorwho @DoctorWho_BBCA @Pearlie_mack pic.twitter.com/ODU8GV6xti
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
More frames from @Jamti #oxygen episode of #DoctorWho @Pearlie_mack @bbcdoctorwho @DoctorWho_BBCA pic.twitter.com/y2hbm5M3JA
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
A few more boards from @Jamti ‘s excellent #oxygen episode of #DoctorWho @Pearlie_mack @DoctorWho_BBCA @bbcdoctorwho pic.twitter.com/RVhWWZLKs4
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
More frames from @Jamti ‘s excellent scary #oxygen episode of #DoctorWho @Pearlie_mack @bbcdoctorwho @DoctorWho_BBCA pic.twitter.com/rZNax38Egj
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
More boards from @Jamti ‘s scary episode #oxygen of #DoctorWho @Pearlie_mack @bbcdoctorwho @DoctorWho_BBCA pic.twitter.com/8niReEDcEd
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
last batch of boards from @Jamti ‘s #oxygen episode of #DoctorWho @Pearlie_mack @bbcdoctorwho @DoctorWho_BBCA pic.twitter.com/ukjYTTPGKI
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) May 17, 2017
We think you’ll agree that they’re pretty lovely things.
This is another in a series of fascinating behind-the-scenes snippets from the show, following some galleries from the official BBC site that showed of production art from ‘Extremis’ and a post from the ‘Oxygen’ writer himself revealing his initial treatment/pitch for to Steven Moffat.
You can read our review of ‘Oxygen’ review here. Or, you can read seven things we loved from the episode here.
Our Doctor Who series 10 episode guide can be found here.