Learn to Storyboard: The First Steps of Visual Storytelling

This class is an introduction to visual storytelling, open to anyone of any skill level. 

Storyboarding is the skill of visually organizing a story - a valuable process for flowing out films, comics, illustrations, business plans or essays. After all, there's a good story woven into every successful project!

What You'll Learn

• Understanding Storyboarding. What is Storyboarding? How would someone approach it? What are the fundamental tools? 
• Coming Up with Your Story Idea. Coming up with a story that's unique to you and "gutsy" in some way.
• Researching Your Subject. You'll be asked to find pictures, documents or any other source of information that'll offer inspiration on your subject. 
• Exploring and Structuiring Your Ideas. You'll produce a blueprint of your story in its simplest form. 
• Executing Your Ideas. Draft your storyboard in a way that communicates your story exactly how you'd like. 

What You'll Make

You'll use the project guide I designed to storyboard a story from your life - anything from a favorite childhood memory to something that happened on the way to work this morning. 

As a story artist at Walt Disney Studios, storyboarding is what I do (and love) daily. 

• What is Storyboarding?
• Rules & Tools of Storyboarding (Part 1)
• Rules & Tools of Storyboarding (Part 2)
• Generating Three Ideas
• Sample Research
• Research for Pretzel Story
• Paradigm
• Thumbnails
• First Pass
• Second Pass
• Final Pass
• Final Pass Cleanup Tutorial