Storyboarding

PROJECT : Storyboarding_AnimaticDraft_Project This rough draft is due NEXT WEEK! In class we will watch some examples of previous student work to get inspired.    

Project: Experiment with adding a keyfarmed object to the Cuts/Transitions Project from Last week Keyframes You can add keyfames to a layer. Draw something (not on the background layer) Now click the TRANSFORM TOOL and add a KEYFRAME Move the PLAYHEAD and and another KEYFRAME Now you can move the object on either KEYFRAME or…

Project: Proj_6_Storyboardpro_cuts Cuts YOUTUBE LINK : Great Video on Cuts Transitions Star Wars and the Wipe Transition   Cutting on Action Making the cut as the character goes through an action, can be dramatic or subtle The Cutaway Shot A reaction shot. The camera moves to something else. Can be a conversation, a point of view…

Proj_6_Acting_and_Posing Live Action Storyboards tend to have less poses drawn since actors will do the work. Animation Storyboards will have more drawings because the artist is the actor! Either way, think of the ACTING! Your tools are: Body, hands, face Gestures Line Of Action (move beyond horizontal and vertical) Costumes and Props (clothing, hats, tails,…

Proj_5_Angles_Stageline_Framing Angles Vertical -Looking Upward or Downward -Implies Height/Power Relationship Horizontal -From Profile to Straight-on -From Objective to Subjective Tilt (youtube video example) -Uneasiness/Tension -Known as the Dutch Angle Stageline (youtube video example) -Line of ‘communication’ or ‘interest’ between characters -it can move if characters move -Keep cameras consistent to avoid confusion and keep ‘flow’…

Proj_3_Thumbnails_and_Character_Design Re-read the story your created. Share it with your friends and see if there are any areas where there is confusion of where something needs to be explained better or re-written. Think back to the story structure we talked about in our last class, does your story have a powerful arc/rhythm? Do you need…

Storytelling: Proj_2_Storytelling_Project “If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.” – Stanley Kubrick “There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.” – Quoted in Kubrick : Inside a Film Artist’s Maze (2000) by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10 “Nothing…

Storyboarding_sylabus Proj_1_Storyboard_Research Anatomy of a Storyboard and Basic Terminology anatomy_and_basics_of_a_storyboard Example of storyboards from Star Wars star_wars_storyboard_small Film Terminology:  AFI illustrated List of Shots http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~aspoerri/Teaching/DMPOnline/Readings/screen_shot_reference.pdf AFI Film Terminology http://web.eesd.org/filmfestival2012/Resources_files/AFI_BasicsHandbook.pdf Abbreviations for Shots/Storyboard Descriptions http://www.edu.pe.ca/threeoaks/Art/Digital%20Arts%20site/unit4/pdf/abbreviations.pdf   Drawing Tips Perspective Review (in class) Drawing Figures Review (in class)   General Drawing  Tips : Storyboard Drawing Tips Drawing Bodies: Anatomy_and_Head_Measurment_Systems…