Visual Storytelling for Animation Projects

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Course overview

Provider
Domestika
Course type
Paid course
Level
Beginner
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
1 hour
Lessons
18 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Luigi Esparza Santa María

If you are passionate about animation, cartoons and the audiovisual world in general, you may have wondered at some point: how can a small idea become a great production animation project? It is not enough to have the idea, you have to develop and dress it to be able to sell it in a pitch , and get investment to carry it out.

That is precisely what you will learn in this Domestika course by the hand of the audiovisual communicator, director and screenwriter Luigi Esparza. With a long career in the sector and co-founder of the animation studio Polirama, Luigi will teach you the whole work process to create a good story focused on the audiovisual medium, structured and with a defined character; also creating the visual storytelling for your pitch .

Description

Learn how to tell a story with simple sketches and prepare a pitch for investors

You will start by knowing Luigi, who will tell you more about his career directing, writing and producing cartoons. He will also talk to you about his influences and references in literature, film and animation.

You will learn the process of how an idea can become a great project, with investment and collaborators. For this it is necessary to create pitch with a great visual storytelling where you sell your idea with: history, graphic line and commercial viability.

Luigi will give you the keys to tell a good story and to reach the public; It will also show you how to set it in the pitch . But first, it will explain how to generate ideas and find inspiration.

You will carry out an exhaustive investigation phase where your ideas will turn around; They will charge personality and authenticity.

Hands on the script! You will learn to build your characters based on three axes: the physical, the socio-cultural and the psychological. Next, Luigi will show you how to create the thread of your story, what you are looking for and what your character should fight for. This fight will not be easy for him, so his arc of transformation must be seen.

Then, you will define the structure and acts of your story: presentation, knot and outcome. When you have it, you should ask yourself certain questions to see what you are telling.

When you have your story written, the visual storytelling . You will make a sketch with each plot point . You must reduce it to ten drawings to pass it to the storyboard . Then you will see the steps to define the medium in which the product plans to be distributed.

Finally, you will see tips and aspects that you should contemplate in the pitch as your oral presentation, the rhythm it should have or how to tell the story.

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