Bloop Animation – Storyboarding Foundations Course

What will you find inside this course?

• Course: A comprehensive online course with HD video lessons, which can be downloaded and viewed on any device.
• Made for filmmakers of any kind: As filmmakers, we’ve designed this course to be tailored specifically for aspiring filmmakers. Animation, live action or TV. No previous experience needed.
• The best starting point: After taking this course you will have complete understanding of the storyboarding process and principles, and will be able to take the next steps to making your film a reality.
• Templates: We’ve included production-grade storyboard templates that can be used for your own production.

Storyboard Pro Mini-Course included

This course comes bundled with an in-depth mini-course on Storyboard Pro, covering how to create a storyboard from scratch, step by step, all the way to exporting a finished animatic.

This 30-lesson section could have easily been a separate course, but we’ve decided to include it with the Storyboarding Foundations course so that you learn the most advanced methods for storyboarding available today.

What will you learn?

• Terminology: We’ll start by going over basic filmmaking terminology and concepts, understanding what a storyboard is used for, shot types, camera moves and transitions.
• Composition: After understanding the basics, we’ll dive deep into composition, learning how to get clarity in your shots. We’ll focus on focal points, rule of thirds, lighting, composition in moving shots, cuts, 180 rule, shot types and more.
• Storyboarding Process: Jumping right into the action, we’ll learn the storyboard pipelines and structure, and start making one ourselves. We’ll see how to turn a script into thumbnails into rough boards into clean boards, and even how to pitch your storyboard and create an animatic.
• Storyboarding with Photoshop: We’ll learn how use the storyboard template included in the course, as well as how to setup one for ourselves. We’ll go over drawing, exporting and creating an animatic from your boards.
• Storyboarding with SketchUp: We’ll learn how to create quick 3D scenes and use a 3D camera to create shots for our storyboard using the free 3D program SketchUp.
• Toon Boom Storyboard Pro: Included in this course is an in-depth mini course on Storyboard Pro, one of the most advanced storyboarding programs. We’ll learn how to use this program from start to finish, and create a professional-grade storyboard and animatic.

Course structure

• Filmmaking Terminology and Concepts
• Composition
• The Storyboarding Process
• Storyboarding with Photoshop
• Storyboarding with SketchUp
• Storyboard Pro: Preparing a Project
• Storyboard Pro: Drawing Boards
• Storyboard Pro: Feedback and Revisions
• Storyboard Pro: Advanced Animatics