Worldbuilding: Background Design Group
This comprehensive course equips you with skills in perspective drawing, ensuring no detail is left untouched. Elevate your scenes to life-like authenticity. Uncover how perspective can evoke emotions, perfect lighting, and balance. This course will empower you to create mesmerizing backgrounds, transforming your artistic journey forever
Start Date: April 1, 2024
Enroll By: March 29, 2024 (midnight)
Begin this course at anytime with the Interactive Version
What you will learn
Understanding the importance of storyboarding in the animation process and utilizing existing Worldbuilding course stories or scenes as blueprints for expansion
Learning how to use various shots to convey messages and emotions most effectively in a visual medium
Studying professional examples of films and sketching from their compositions to gain firsthand experience and insights
Gradually build your own storyboard over several weeks, receive direct feedback when you choose the Interactive version of this course
Techniques for achieving visual balance and keeping the viewers' eyes engaged by strategically guiding their focus through the scenes
Learning how to storyboard sequences with action and emotional moments to maintain the flow and coherence of the storytelling
Going beyond simple storyboarding methods and delving deeper into storytelling with a camera, including camera usage, drama, edits, story pacing, and clarity
Exploring various filmmaking concepts and understanding how a storyteller's mindset can be translated into visual form through storyboarding
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Perspective Drawing
Thumbnailing
Character Introduction
Scene Design
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Designed for individuals who are interested in creating their own animation backgrounds
You can focus on backgrounds that primarily use the rules of linear perspective or those that describe natural forms
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When you sign up for a Group Course you will participate in a course where pre-recorded video lectures and homework will be provided and assigned.
Each week, The Animation Tutor will review and provide feedback collectively, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Each student will receive a personalized group feedback video with 15-minutes of feedback each (totalling 2 hours of feedback throughout the course), along with corrected artwork files.
Your work will be evaluated in comparison to the rest of the group. Additionally, there will be designated office hours where you can have discussions with The Animation Tutor at specific milestones throughout the course.
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All Animation Tutor Courses Require:
Zoom account for the online feedback sessions (Interactive and Group Courses)
Access to Google Drive to submit homework and to receive feedback files (Interactive and Group Courses)
Reliable internet speed, ideally offering at least 30 Mbps for both downloads and upload, ensures a smooth online experience
Drawing materials of your choice, life drawing is always best done traditionally
Access to a library or bookstore
Ability to seek out artists that inspire you
Willingness to learn and grow as an artist!
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Explore Resource Library:
theanimationtutor.com/resourcesSoftware Recommendations:
Best option: Photoshop with the Lazy Nezumi plugin installed.
Other options: Clip Studio Paint and comfortability with using the Perspective Rulers or Procreate and comfortability using the Perspective Drawing Guide
Most difficult option: Working with pencil on large paper, or multiple pieces of smaller paper (to allow you to extend the vanishing points outside of the composition you're working on)
