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Animation
Storyboarding:
A practical course in traditional and digital storyboarding
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Course
Outline and Guidelines (pdf)
Application Form (doc)
Diversity Monitoring Form (doc)
Large format Course Outline and Guidelines (pdf)
Large format Application Form (doc)
Large format Diversity Monitoring Form (doc)
This course offers an opportunity for six storyboard artists or animators to develop a thorough
understanding of traditional storyboarding practices, and demonstrates how a digital pipeline can
help them to speed up working processes and provide greater flexibility in possible outputs.
Over six intensive workshop sessions they will be taught traditional and digital storyboarding skills
and learn to use a range of digital tools to both facilitate the storyboarding process and to create
basic animatics (moving storyboards) from their boards, enabling them to visually articulate ideas
both on paper and on screen.
All aspects of storyboard production will be covered including:
drawing, artistic interpretation of scripts, software skills using Photoshop and After Effects for the
production of animatics, understanding camera angles, film direction and storytelling.
By the end of the course it is intended that participants will have diversified and enhanced their
skills base and employment options, as well as producing paper and digital storyboards for
inclusion in their portfolios.
The course comprises a series of six Brighton-based residential workshops run over a period of
four months. Training is delivered in the form of structured teaching sessions, hands-on practical
tasks and exercises, screenings, industry guest presentations and through constructive feedback
received from the tutors, industry guests and other course participants. The programme is
structured to encourage collaboration and teamwork, and allows sufficient time for participants to
absorb the new skills taught during training, and to produce independent work between sessions.
Once participants have gained a solid grounding in the processes of traditional and digital
storyboarding, an animated feature-length screenplay will be introduced to the course. Simulating
a working industry environment, the creative vision of the team behind the project will provide a
focus for the remainder of the course, as participants work with the director and other key
creatives to produce storyboards and animatics of selected scenes.
The final session ends with a showcase event during which the students will present their work to
a specially invited industry audience and have the chance to network with experienced animation
professionals.
All workshops will take place at Lighthouse in Brighton. Participants’ accommodation and
subsistence costs are included as part of the course.
‘Animation Storyboarding: A practical course in traditional and digital storyboarding’ is primarily
funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund.
The fund awards grants to organisations to create, deliver or facilitate film specific training and was established to support the delivery of A Bigger Future - the UK Film Skills Strategy
developed by the film industry in partnership with the UK Film Council and Skillset.
A Bigger Future is a complete training and education strategy for the UK film industry which aims
to address the skills shortages exposed by Skillset's research programme and through ongoing
consultation with the industry.
COURSE SOFTWARE
The software packages that will be used during the course are Adobe After Effects and Photoshop.
Interested applicants should note that they will need to have access to the relevant
software between workshops in order to be able to complete assignments and to
continue to develop their work outside of the training sessions.
COURSE TUTORS
Temple Clark
Temple Clark is one of the UK’s leading storyboard artists and has worked closely with directors
such as Anthony Minghella and Alfonso Cuarón.
His long list of credits includes: ‘The Golden
Compass’, ‘Children of Men’, ‘The Da Vinci Code’, ‘Cold Mountain’, ‘The Proposition’, ‘Girl With a
Pearl Earring’ and two Harry Potter films.
Giles Thacker
Although best known as the video designer for bands such as Orbital, the Verve and Turin Brakes,
Giles Thacker has also directed pop promos, made idents for broadcast, AV installations for
museums and content for computer games. Giles recently taught 2D animation on the Digital
Moving Image MA at the London Metropolitan University and now teaches on the Digital Media
Design BA at the Sussex Downs College.
COURSE FEE
The course fee per participant is £600. This includes accommodation and subsistence during
the workshops. Without the financial support of the Skillset Film Skills Fund and other course partners
and sponsors the cost would be £7,500 per participant.
Applications are invited from all sectors of the community.
We are able to facilitate access for deaf
and disabled people.
All information is available in large print format.
Please see the guidelines for further information reagrding the course and application process. If you need any additional help or clarification
please contact Emily Kyriakides or Emma Basset at Lighthouse on 01273 647197 or info@lighthouse.org.uk
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