Storyboarding for Animation

Master class

Storyboarding for Animation

Dates:

July 20th - Sept. 15th, 2013 + 1 extra week for content review

Fees:

$599

Pre-reqs:

Analytical Figure Drawing and Environment Sketching or Good Drawing Foundations with a stress on character and environment sketching

Materials:

Able computer, photoshop (any), wacom tablet or equivalent

Course Description:

This is an introduction course where you will learn some techniques for visual storytelling. It will cover methods and exercises to help you generate ideas and learn tips and tricks used in story boarding. The assignments will help you build a starter portfolio for story boarding and equip with the basics for creating your own stories.

Weekly individual feedback format: video critique.

Course Outline

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• Week 1:  Introduction. Creating a career path. Finding ideas and sources for stories. Developing quick gestural sketching habits and research. Demo some quick sketch drawing tips.
• Week 2: Creating Storytelling images. Working with single images to tell stories and do gag drawings. Thoughts and exercises for comedy.
• Week 3:  Industry story boarding process, covering script, beat boards, and building a story reel. Basic movie structure analysis.
• Week 4: Nuts and bolts for drawing story boards. Talk about line quality, composition, value and other miscellaneous methods as they pertain to story boarding.
• Week 5: Structuring a scene. Talk about breaking down script pages, finding ways to have progression and punctuation in a sequence. Demo boarding a scene.
• Week 6:  Story boarding using photoshop. A useful overview of the program and the various tools used in the industry. Demo some common feature animation story boarding techniques and talk about ways to work faster.
• Week 7:  Storyboard theory odds and ends.Talk about more story telling approaches and visual tools.
• Week 8:  Story portfolios. Talk about finding and exploiting your strengths, and other things you can do to give yourself an advantage in finding work.