2025 - LIVE 8-WEEK CLASS: CINEMATIC STORYBOARDING FOR 2D ACTION and DRAMA

CLASS STARTS FEBRUARY 1st, 2025

TIME-LAPSED RECORDING OF STORYBOARD CREATION WILL BE INCLUDED

This 8-week course will go deep into the boarding thought process and general techniques used when working on 2D action shows, with each session lasting somewhere between 1.5-2 hours (may run longer depending on Q&A).

Each lecture will have a weekly assignment related to the topics covered, with each one building on the previous lessons.

Classes will be streamed weekly and there will be a Discord Server available for students to engage with one another.

Class Materials will also be distributed via Discord.

CLASS DATE AND TIME:

• Live lectures with Q&A will occur SATURDAY 10:00AM - 12:00PM (PST) (this almost always goes over the time though)
  

COURSE CURRICULUM

• Week 1: Fundamentals of Storytelling
• Week 2: Shots and Cameras 1
• Week 3: Shots and Cameras 2:
• Week 4: Blocking and Acting: The fundamentals of blocking and performance and what to consider when boarding.
• Week 5: Editing Principles: How to use the principles of editing to improve your boards.
• Week 6: Action Scenes: Principles of planning an Action Scene.
• Week 7: PROCESS 1 : How to actually start planning a sequence.
• Week 8: PROCESS 2: How to execute a sequence. What is a clean board?
  

  

COURSE POLICY (PLEASE READ):

• Lectures will be recorded weekly for you to watch in case you cannot make the live lectured Q&A.
• Weekly recordings and downloadable assets will be taken down a month after the class ends
• NO REFUND (please double check your schedule and make your you can commit to the class)
• Suggested Materials: Either Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop/or Toon Boom Storyboard Pro (any version), pens, pencils, loose paper. Basically any software you can board in.
  

About Your Instructor: Danny Araya is currently a Director working at Powerhouse Animation Studios in Austin, Texas. He has worked as a Director, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer, and Background Painter.

No refund after purchase

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