Anime Studio Pro 9 Tutorials
Creating a Blueprint / Mapping Out a Storyboard
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What you're seeing on screen is a very rough and pretty ugly storyboard I have created for this particular screenplay. A storyboard is essentially a comic strip if you will of all the major shots mapped out visually so that you can interpret them when you go into the animation process. And this is very common in film especially when multiple angles involved and a director has to work with a director of photography. You have a lot of different aspects that go into this when it comes to creating a sound production. Now with this it's very simple and there's not a whole lot of angles. I'll probably a couple of zoom in shots and all that but for the most part it's pretty straightforward, we're pretty much using a side angle for most of this and so the screenplay and the storyboard is very simple. But basically what I have done here is drawn this and scanned it in and it's a visual representation of the screenplay. We have the house, the exterior shot and we have a zoom in of the house. And then you have a tracking shot just kind of a slow pan of the hallway. And then you cut to a man named Gary running in and then you have of course the monster. And then you have Gary jumping over some furniture like an end table, he stepped on a trap door which causes him to go into a tunnel. He hits the ground in the basement and then he scrambles and then the monster crashes in to corner him. And then of course around that time he'll say his, his line, his piece of dialog. So that is how the screenplay works and again this is a very, very rough screenplay. Some people use stick figures to map out their screenplays. Others have very elaborate drawings. It just depends on who you're working with, who is more visual and it just really depends on many elements. So your screenplays will probably look a lot different than mine. Now you can do what I did here and that's draw it out and scan it in. Or you can map out a storyboard electronically. It just depends on how you want to interpret it. For instance if we go to Celtx which is the screenwriting software and if we come up here to Add, you can see that we have a Storyboard template we can use. And not only that because we are using this within Celtx if we choose the Script drop-down box and pick Screenplay which is what I have named my screenplay and click OK you can see now that it actually brings in the scenes from the screenplay automatically. So it kind of makes our lives a lot easier. And from here we can scroll down and we can add images and sketches of each scene if we wish. We can also add additional shots if we need to expand upon each scene. And it basically just allows you to visually draw it all out and you can play it in sequence to kind of see it all play out kind of like a slideshow and so on. Now the thing about this is, is a lot of people like to see everything at once when it comes to a screenplay. In fact, it's not uncommon for someone to interpret a screenplay into a storyboard and plaster their wall with note cards of each individual square drawn out so that they can see the whole thing and then they can basically take in everything that this storyboard and the screenplay is going to do. So sometimes the digital or the electronic way isn't always the best way. But anyway that is just another tool for you to use if you wish. Again you can do it hand drawn, you can do it electronically. It really just depends on how you want to interpret it. And finally we will be referring to the screenplay, the storyboard, the outline and so on throughout this entire series. But that doesn't mean it's set in stone. It could change, we could make adjustments as we go through the animation process. So be prepared to be flexible. And finally if you ever want to refer back to my screenplay, the storyboard whichever file you want to refer back to, you can find those Work Files. So be sure to open up the screenplay if you wish and the storyboard. They're labeled clearly so you cannot miss them. Just make sure that you have Celtx installed if you try to open up the screenplay. Up next is an overview of the Anime Studio Tools.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Anime Studio Pro 9 |
| Author: | Chad Troftgruben |
| SKU: | 34402 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-088-6 |
| Release Date: | 2013-01-24 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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