John Coven (800)


Over the past twenty years, John Coven has storyboarded more than fifty feature films including, The Green Hornet, 3:10 To Yuma, X-Men, Walk the Line, The Usual Suspects, and Reality Bites. He’s created storyboards for visionary directors such as Bryan Singer, Michel Gondry, James Mangold, Ben Stiller, Wim Wenders, and Bruce Beresford.

For ten years, John taught storyboarding, illustration, and digital filmmaking in Los Angeles at the Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and Design, and the Gnomen School of Visual Effects.

After graduating from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, John attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and graduated with a degree in illustration from the Ecole National des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg. He now lives in Santa Monica Canyon with his wife and twin sons.