Animate Your Imagination: Create an Animated Storyboard From Scratch

Create an Animated Storyboard From Scratch: Enhance your animation abilities by learning to create and manage your short film.

Entering a world full of trolls, dragons, and talking doggies is an everyday experience for animator and storyteller Toniko Pantoja. In the last decade, Toniko has spent countless hours creating appealing characters, directing animated shorts, and working on blockbusters such as How to Train Your Dragon 3, Trolls, and Croods 2. Toniko's technical expertise and distinctive animation style have attracted millions of viewers and helped him build a fan base of more than 335K people on YouTube and Instagram.

In this course, Toniko draws from both his professional and personal experiences to assist animation novices in creating an animated short by making storyboards and composing an animatic. With Toniko at your side, you can tap into your inner director, filmmaker, and voice actor as you design characters, dialogue, and a compelling tale to tell in your animated work.

Together with Toniko Together, you'll:

• Brainstorm your ideas for the kind of story you'd like to tell by way of animation
• You can write an exciting logline summarising the characters you created, your setting, and your conflicts.
• Create an outline of your story along with the dialogue
• Utilize storyboarding to plan out your animated short clip shot by shot
• Add the sound and timing to your animation short by creating an animatic

In addition, you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of Toniko in creating a unique short based on the characters of his choice.

You may want to enhance your storytelling abilities through animation or share your ideas with an aspiring producer or collaborator. This class will aid you in generating log storylines and conveying your vision in an appropriately produced animatic.

Basic animation and illustration skills will speed up your learning during this class. To learn with Toniko, it is necessary to have an internet connection, Adobe Animate, a paper-pencil, and an illustration tablet or a graphic tablet. If you don't own a tablet or a pencil, you can draw in Adobe Animate using a mouse for more animation adventures Explore Toniko's entire Animation Learning Path.