Motion Graphic Design: Storyboards and Animatics

Learn how to build storyboards and animatics with the tools in Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the Adobe iOS apps.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Course structure
• The benefits of storyboards

1. Drawing or Sketching Digitally

• Drawing with a graphic tablet in SketchBook
• Drawing with Photoshop
• Drawing with a tablet

2. Getting Ideas Down Quickly

• Drawing with non-photo blue pencils
• Cleaning up artwork in Photoshop
• Storyboarding with stickies
• Compositing storyboard frames in Photoshop
• Storyboarding with Illustrator artboards

3. Creating Mograph Animatics in Premiere Pro

• Recording audio in Premiere Pro
• Marking out timing to music or dialogue
• Editing to markers with Automate to Sequence
• Animating layers in Premiere Pro
• Adding effects in Premiere Pro

4. Using Dynamic Link with After Effects

• Exporting a Premiere Pro animatic into After Effects
• Incorporating Cineware via dynamic link

5. Finishing the Animatic Stage

• Review and approval procedures with Frame.io
• Goodbye