Storyboard for Animation

If you want to create an animation, you’ll need to make something else first: A Storyboard!

A storyboard is a planned sequence of key scenes of how your animation or film will unfold, shot by shot.

In this class, I’ll walk you through how to storyboard for an animation based on your own individual story’s needs.

You will explore the process of:

Identifying the main theme of your story
Collecting relevant references
Learning the Principles of Storyboarding
Learning Terminology
Creating beat boards
Thumbnailing your script/story
Drafting your storyboard
Finalising your Storyboard

By the end of this class, students will know how to storyboard effectively based on their core story theme, and have completed a storyboard ready to be animated.

These skills can also be applied into creating animatics or motion comics.

Those without an existing story idea will be given a link to a version of “The Emperor’s new clothes”. Feel free to reinterpret and adapt this in any way for your board!