REGISTRATION DEADLINE :
September 12th, 2023
SESSION STARTS:
September 25th, 2023
STORY: ADVANCED STORY: Develop and Draw Yours!
*Workshop FULL*
Louis Gonzales
Director, Story Supervisor, Story Artist, Pixar Animation Studios
Length of Workshop: 10 weeks. Once a week.
Days: Wednesdays starting September 27th, 2023
Time: 6pm to 9pm pacific time *special time*
Tuition: $1,600 (Includes a $200 non-refundable registration fee)
Prerequisite: A link to your portfolio is required with your registration.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Advanced Visual Storytelling will simulate life as a professional story artist. We will expand upon the lessons learned in Visual Storytelling 1 to craft more nuanced scenes with layers of visual storytelling. We will also discuss world-building and artistic style and how to best bring your voice into the larger film-making industry.
Assignments will include: storyboarding from script pages, storyboarding from experience, explorational story development sketches, and pitching to the class.
CURRICULUM:
- Composition/staging
- Storyboarding from a script: ex Action Sequence (20-30 boards, two week assignment)
- Dialogue/ acting sequence (20-30 boards, two week assignment)
- Structure
- Pitching
- Brainstorming
- Creating characters
- Personal Story (20-30 boards, two week assignment)
PREREQUISITE:
Prerequisite: A portfolio review is required. Visual Storytelling 1 is highly recommended.
*Visual Story 2 is limited to 10 students to allow for maximum individualized focus. We encourage a comfortable, collaborative environment so that students can learn from their own assignments, the critiques of others’, instructor demos, lectures, and guest speakers.