Dot Escuela

ONLINE ANIMATION WORKSHOP ||Story Board|| with Greta Traldi.

DATE: 17, 18 & 19 January, 2025.

SCHEDULE: (Madrid Time)

Friday. 04:30pm to 07:30pm. Stop. 07:30pm to 08:00pm. 08:00pm to 11:00pm

Saturday. 04:30pm to 07:30pm. Stop. 07:30pm to 08:00pm. 08:00pm to 11:00pm

Sunday. 04:30pm to 07:30pm. Stop. 07:30pm to 08:00pm. 08:00pm to 11:00pm

DURATION: 18 hours PRICE: 200€ LANGUAGE: English. Online Plattform: Google Meet.

Summary and recommended materials.

Storyboarding is one of the key aspects of pre production in animation, during this workshop we will take a look at what is needed to create a clear and pipeline ready storyboard. We will talk about the different kinds of styles of storyboarding (feature, pre-school, action-adventure etc) and learn their characteristics.
We will pass through all the basic skills and knowledge an artist needs to have to start in this field and we will put them to use via developing a short sequence from thumbs to clean up!

Day 1:
-Introduction to Storyboard
-drawing for storyboards
-perspective for storyboards
-different kind of storyboard genres/styles
-camera shots and composition
-let’s start a sequence! A short script sample will be provided and we will go through how to plan and thumb our very first version of the sequence

Day 2:
-Rule of 180° degrees
-acting for storyboards and the different styles
-hook ups, cuts and editing. How to make sure your boards have everything to be production ready
-the different stages of a sequence (planning/research -> thumbs -> roughs -> cleans)
-we will revise and improve the thumbs/roughs everybody did

Day 3:
-storytelling and setting a mood (the anatomy of a sequence)
-storyboard artist and storyboard revisionist, the different roles and what they look for in each one of them
-we will check the roughs and lock the sequences to be cleaned up
-what can I do from here? Suggestions, exercises, tips
-examples of different storyboard artists and their approach

Recommended materials:
You can work on any program that lets you draw. But make sure you can export your drawings in a sequence of jpegs to be viewed!
No need to make animatics for this workshop, but if you already know how to use storyboard
Pro and you want to work on it and time your stuff, you totally can but it is not required.