The Animation Storytelling and Pre-Production Workshop

Many artists want to dive in to the drawing and animating, but without a strong story, there's no path for the art.  We discuss how the script is integral to the animation process.

This lesson focuses on available scriptwriting software and the advantages of using special software over generic word processing software.

This lecture covers establishing setting for each scene.

Dialogue is a chance to expand on information your audience should know beyond the visuals - this lesson covers placing well-crafted dialogue in your script.

This lecture focuses on outlining the plot of your tale.

What makes your story worthy of being an animated film?  Here we cover some ideas for making the script open to visual interpretation.

So you've made your first script; now it's time to rewrite it and consider getting some outside help to improve it. 

Now that we have a script to work from, we can begin crafting our visuals in the storyboard.

In this lesson I introduce the free software Storyboardr as a method for converting a script to board.

We cover how to add sounds and sort the length of our panels for the demo version of our animation called the Animatic.

In this lesson, we cover the 4 main elements that you should be including in your storyboards.

In this lecture we cover why you may want to hire professionals for your voice overs rather than using just who you know, as well as how to go about the process of finding talent.

This lecture covers methods for recording and directing your voice actors in person.