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Introduction
Introduction
Developing full-size storyboards and animatics
Before Class
Before Class
1 hr
1 hr
Tutorial-HNT-EDIT-Sc035-Fox-Cave-v101.mp44 Different Storyboarding Styles - WB, Aardman, Family Guy, Disney, 20 mins
WEEKLY TASK LIST
WEEKLY TASK LIST
^^^ Check out the above videos on Storyboarding^^^
As usual:
- Practise Digital Drawing and/or Traditional warmups
- Borrow/bring:
- A drawing tablet and/or drawing equipment, as per Week 1.
- Headphones/earphones for viewing videos at your workstation.
- Use your own credentials for borrowing, thank you.
- Complete last week's Post-Class activities.
- Prepare updated GDrive files and links
During Class
During Class
During Class
During Class
Storyboard Revisions
Storyboard Inking
Animatics and Audio
Project 3 Fine Completion
FINE Storyboard - Feedback, Revisions, Inking, Animatics
FINE Storyboard - Feedback, Revisions, Inking, Animatics
FINE storyboard and/or animatic: due in class for feedback Week 12.
ALL STUDENTS:
Before class, make sure your Photoshop storyboard project file is already organized in full-size layer comps and is READY for the facilitator to DRIVE it. Please, do not waste class time for others.
During class, finish preparing your work for the facilitator to drive the project file, BEFORE it's your turn for feedback. Please, do not waste class time for others.
Animatics should be already exported to AV and playable. The Premiere Pro project folder should already be organized, functional, and ready for a facilitator to drive it, from any workstation.
Roughs were completed last week. Small thumbnail roughs are no longer acceptable for feedback or production. All keys must be FULL SIZE.
Prepare to revise your boards and/or animatics with feedback, preferably in rough construction, and insert more shots/keys as needed.
Draw-over feedback is best supplied directly within Photoshop layers, in the Premiere timeline, and/or via video screen-capture. Please supply your master files (with all layers), in GDrive and in class, for drawover and editing, in Photoshop and Premiere.
While the main project is due week 12, we expect some revisions may be completed by Week 13, and grading will follow.
Did you know: Most storyboard artists start as Storyboard Revisionists.
INKING - READ THIS. With rough construction in low opacity, use reference and feedback to ensure the sequence looks good, composition is working and is approved, in full-size frames. THEN apply loosely cleaned-up black ink to IMPORTANT SUBJECTS ONLY as needed for clarity. Show a hierarchy of contrast, with high contrast for important subjects, low contrast for the rest.
See digital inking for tips.Tone shading should be LIMITED if used at all, and only if needed for STORY.
David's class:
David's class:
Annotation
Annotation
Storyboards must be carefully annotated with detailed information if you're not doing an animatic. Warning: annotation can be laborious.
Go to Project 3 Detail Brief or Storyboard Fundamentals for Annotation rules and examples.
During Class - The Animatic
During Class - The Animatic
Strongly Recommended
Get in the mood, with some music to drive your scene!
See also Hanna-Barbera Themes & Underscores for in-scene action.
The Photoshop to Premiere pipeline deploys commonly-desired industry skills, is friendly to the average editorial production pipeline, and is fast.
Alternative Workflows for Storyboards and Animatics
Alternative Workflows for Storyboards and Animatics
We support the Photoshop to Premiere pipeline, because it deploys commonly-desired industry skills, it's friendly to the average editorial production pipeline, and it's fast.
Some alternatives:
Photoshop and After Effects - for more advanced 2D effects and/or 3D camera
Photoshop Timeline
Advanced students may wish to explore other tools popular in the animation industry, such as TVPaint (popular in Europe), and ToonBoom Storyboard Pro (popular in North America). These tools provide advanced keyframe drawing, camera tools, shot labeling and sequence editing, all within one software.
Blender Grease Pencil
Check on licensing permissions, and if your facilitator can support you, before using these tools, or using them on a private device.
Introduction to using the Photoshop Timeline to edit an animatic, 3 mins, optional.
After Class
After Class
Weekly outside-class-time is 6 hours per week.
Use a calendar and schedule your recurring time, with access to tools, software and equipment.Please do any in-class exercises and Project work due, whether you attended or not.
- Digitize any traditional work.
Save all files/images to
GDrive > My SAE Studies > Trimesters > [Tri] > [Unit]
- Students are responsible for keeping their data safe and accessible in an agreed, shared location.
Insert/embed images for web display
- Ensure your GDrive link is well-displayed in your unit home page.
Publish your web pages
- Whenever work-in-progress changes, finished or not.
Finish Project 3 - Environment Design and Storyboarding
- Seek feedback, and address all notes, for good results.
- Display fine work in Project page, embed GDrive project folder with hi-res layered project files, and submit Project Page link in Campus Online.
- Follow the Project 3 Detail Brief for good results, and use the Online Guide resources.
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