Introduction To Story Boarding (Udemy.com)
Learn the language of film while mastering drawing to achieve great Story Boards for the inner Story teller in you.
Created by: Dalton Grant Jr
Last updated September 2017
What you will learn
- By the end of this course you will be able to do story boards for Short animations , Short live action films ,Game cinematics , Photo Narratives and Story Pitching for designers trying to sell new ideas.
- In this course you will learn to :
- Draw people with a quick short hand techniques used by professionals
- Use Visual symbolism for maximum impact
- Set up Camera's
- Story structure with images
- Edit your content to help strengthen your presentations
How it compares
Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in Drawing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews115#151 of 195 by number of reviews
- Length3.5 hoursshorter than 62% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2017earlier than 87% of them
Quality Score
Overall Score : 88 / 100
Course Description
This course is about learning the craft of storyboarding for animation artists, filmmakers, game design artists, graphic designers and people interested in learning how the storyboarding process affects the film, game and design work you may be doing.
In this course you can find lectures, video demonstrations and PDFs that will help further the information provided in each session.
You may be able to complete the lectures in a 1 week time period but I would encourage going back over the material as many times as you like until you have mastered the information provided. Plus, there will be ongoing discussions between students and myself to help build the independent animation, game and film communities.
This course is structured in sessions that consist of lectures. The students will need to watch or listen to the lectures provided and work alongside the demonstrations to help them follow the information provided. You will in some sessions be asked to read PDF materials provided in the sessions. Considering the possibility of a high volume of students, I will try my best to answer most of the questions and give feedback when I host live sessions. I also plan on scheduling live sessions with industry professionals so that you get a clearer understanding of the techniques used here.
By taking this course in Intro to Storyboarding, you will gain the foundations of a visual storyteller. The goal here is to insure that the people who sign up will learn to use industry methods to further enhance the stories they would like to tell. I would like to help create new storyboard artists for filmmaking, game design, photography for narratives, and graphic design by adding some proven creative storytelling skills to their visual work.
Who this course is for:
- This course is designed for anyone who feels they have a story they feel needs to be seen not heard. The students here need no formal training in drawing or painting but if you already have these tools coming in you will learn to push what you already use.
- This course is also going to help introduce the world of film making and visual narratives to those who simply like Games, Movies , Narrative Photography and Animation. Anyone can learn to use these simple skills to broaden their ability's and launch them in a new possible career they other wise thought was not possible.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
115 Reviews
Dalton Grant Jr
I have been a storyboard artist in the SF bay area for the last 12 years working on projects such as Pixar's Cars, Dreamworks Shrek 2 and Wild Brain's Higgley Town Hero's to name a few. I have also worked as an instructor at the Academy of Art University and San Francisco State University before founding Red Giant Studios in 2008 where he now serves as Director and Chief Innovation Officer. I have traveled to China as a guest judge in the Xiamen animation film festival in 2011 and have toured the mainland giving lectures as well as animation consulting. I have also worked in the game industry as concept artist and storyboard artist for commercials and advertisments.
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Reviews
Because apart from the theory of shapes it's supported really good by examples and zomming in to the examples, so you get the whole picture.
This guy is a master of what he is doing & also a great teacher. Highly recommend. I've learnt tons of new stuff.
It's clear and enthusiastically delivered and I trust Dalton can deliver insights that will enrich my early attempts to storyboard
Found this very interesting. I did not consciously know all this about the circle itself and yet I can see this clearer now. Fantastic lecture
I draw comics of my family. But now I can make them more exciting to read knowing about camera angles and how to plan the story out. I really liked how he did step by step instructions.
I'm delighted. This covers a whole lot of what storyboarding is about. You'll have enough solid grounding to get you going. And by taking this course, Mr Grant gives keys that, as he says, could take years to learn. I could not be happier nor recommend this higher. I could see a follow up course covering some of the other considerations that storyboard artists have to handle. But this tells you a ton. Well done and thanks!






