Sketching and Storyboarding

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This class aims to train your eye by using sketching, video and observation for a better understanding of objects, dynamics and movement. Your standing as a digital artist is greatly improved if you are comfortable sketching out your ideas in a meeting or blocking a scene on paper. Any complex project uses storyboarding in its pre-visualization phase. This class will give you a fast-paced introduction to basic drawing skills and then focuses on drawing needed in story-boarding for film and animation. Using pencils and charcoal on paper we move from perspective, light, and shadow to figurative motion sketches and storyboarding. We will interpret the visual impact of camera angles, composition, and use video for frame-by-frame analysis of different walk characteristics. In the last part of the class you will create a storyboard for a medium of your choice and may transfer your drawing into the digital realm using various painting programs. Class time will be divided into critique, discussion, lecture and mainly drawing.