Let’s pretend you could look into the future, what are you looking for? How do you know if something looks good or not?

3 WORDS: Good Visual Storytelling.

Good Visual Storytelling is what made Walt Disney become the person who holds the record for having the most Academy Awards (22) and the one with the most nominations (59).

Ok, so how do you create a Good Visual Storytelling? By intentionally planning for it! You can leave things to chance, but I don’t recommend it.

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail” -Benjamin Franklin

If you create a PLAN that LOOKS GOOD. Then your animation will look good. If you create a PLAN that LOOKS BAD, then the animation will look bad. As simple as that!

The tool for planning an animation is called: A Storyboard. The storyboard is a way of looking into the future and deciding if the animation is looking good or not. And in this training bundle, you will learn how to master it.

Then you will learn how to use the different Symbols to indicate camera movement for action sequences, use arrows to indicate head turns, motion lines to indicate fast movement of the characters, and much more.

You will also learn how to draw perspectives for your panels, so you can do cool backgrounds.

I will teach you techniques if you are using pencil and paper, and also how to do it digitally using some recommended tools and plugins.

Then tips to plan your shots, by using a map, I will teach you how to do this manually first, and then I will recommend a cool tool to do all this planning much faster and dynamic. A tool that is available for Mobile devices, as well as for Desktop, both Windows and Mac.

Then, after all the theory, we will discuss some storyboards that some students have worked for their own version of the Hunters Animated Short. As well as discuss a case study of John MacDonald, a student is working on improving an animated short called Patient Zero.

And finally, this course will close with a challenge, it will be about you creating your own version of the storyboard for the Hunters. I will provide you my own version, so you can get an idea, and you will have the chance to improve it by using everything you learned.

This is the most powerful moment in the course, because you will take everything you learn and put it into practice, this will consolidate all your knowledge learned and transform it into real action.

And, you will be able to publish your own version of the storyboard exercise in the comments section.

Then, after all of that, you will be able to start your training in mastering Storyboarder, a powerful free and easy to use software. You will be able to create amazing shots, with amazing compositions, using 3D Models that you can put in any position and any angle.