Your Visual Storytelling Career Starts Here:
White – Yellow belt (The Karate Kid – Mr. Miyagi Style)
If you’re just getting started with visual storytelling, you’ll want to start here. We present all the skills you need to get started to create storyboards and sequential art. Learn the drawing shortcuts, shot choice, and film language fundamentals that are the foundation for your artistic growth. You will learn to hone your abilities into usable and upgradable art skills. Take the new found confidence in your skills and apply them to create stories you can be proud of.
Difficulty: Novice 
Lifetime Access
Your access to the class materials never expires. Take the class at your own pace and in your own time.
Expert Instructors
Learn from industry experts who are passionate about teaching.
Learn Anywhere
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STORYBOARD BASICS
Difficulty: Novice
An overview of what it takes to create simple but readable images. A perfect talk for beginners. 60 minutes.
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PERSPECTIVE IN STORYBOARDS
Difficulty: Novice
Perspective is a tough subject to master, but there are tricks and shortcuts every storyboard artist should know. Come find out how to make convincing and fast boards with awesome perspective. 60 minutes with Q&A.
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HOW TO DESIGN YOUR STORYBOARD PORTFOLIO
Difficulty: Novice
Are you confused about what to put in your portfolio? We will cover the basics, and give you tips to create a winning submission to the major studios. 60 minutes with Q&A
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Artistic Success with Bobby Chiu
Difficulty: Novice
Think it’s impossible to make it as an independent artist? Bobby Chiu says NO and he will show you the path!
Bobby Chiu came from humble beginnings to build a successful business and following online. Now he’s sharing that experience with all of us!
If you want to push your art to the limits of what you can achieve and find your own path to making a living as an independent artist, running your own business, or servicing your own market, then Bobby is the guy you need to listen to.
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Sergio Paez Story Talk
Difficulty: Novice
This is a storyboard talk by Sergio Paez to animation students. Learn about principles of storyboarding, and how to get into the animation business. 60 minute lecture and demo.
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Story Analysis – Star Wars Rebels Episode Breakdown
Difficulty: Novice
Learn how you create a solid story for a TV Show. Animation Director Sergio Paez takes you through all the steps to create a strong story with one of his episodes on the Star War Rebels Animated Series
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Find your Signature Style With Pixar Artist Le Tang
Difficulty: Novice
Pixar, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm Story Artist Le Tang talks about his experience working on films and his approach to storytelling. Find out what it takes to work at a major studio like Pixar Animation.
Learn more about Find your Signature Style with Pixar Artist Le Tang
FUNDAMENTALS:
Brown – Black Belt (The Jackie Chan Training montage)
The next level up in the storyboading dojo. You have drawing skills and how to use them but you need the advanced camera and story structure and business knowledge to best market your skills. Here you will learn how to be a better professional and how to get the big jobs and create award winning work.
Difficulty: Medium
Lifetime Access
Your access to the class materials never expires. Take the class at your own pace and in your own time.
Expert Instructors
Learn from industry experts who are passionate about teaching.
Learn Anywhere
Switch between your devices without losing your place.
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DRAWING AND PORTFOLIO GROUP
Difficulty: Medium
Improve your drawings and get your portfolio ready to submit for jobs!Two live sessions with Animation Director Sergio Paez. This live online workshop will go over specific things to include or remove from your portfolio. We cover what drawing techniques to highlight and point out your strengths and weaknesses so you have blueprint of what to work on. Each session is recorded so you can reference the materials at any time. Get a personal portfolio review from the instructor and access to our Private course Facebook group.
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STORY ARTIST NETWORKING COURSE
Difficulty: Medium
A step by step networking guide to organize your strengths.
Learn what you want to communicate clearly to define your goals. Build a strong subject line to make sure your email gets opened. Build your confidence by knowing your strengths. Grow your contact list with our tips and strategies created from pro artists who landed the jobs using these techniques.
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TONY SANTO FREELANCING BUNDLE
Difficulty: Medium
Learn an effective way to market yourself as an artist and maintain good connections with your clients. In this intensive course, veteran story artist Tony Santo explains the keys to his successful career as a freelancer and covers topics that are usually intricate while starting your professional career such as rates, networking skills, and the professionalism you need to get more work.
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STORYBOARD INTENSIVE WITH DIRECTOR GIANCARLO VOLPE
Difficulty: Medium
One of the most popular videos on StoryboardArt. This Storyboard Intensive series contains over 2 ½ hours of fun and useful techniques from Annie Award-winning director Giancarlo Volpe. Volpe has worked on many high profile television shows including Avatar: The Last Air Bender, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Green Lantern, and King of the Hill.
ADVANCED:
Jeet Kune Do – For any belt (Matrix Kung Fu mastery
and the 36th chamber of Shaolin)
Take your knowledge one step further with our structured courses. Pick the skills that most speak to your goals and sharpen them to razor efficiency. You’re learning how to be a master of skills in a particular area now you want to mix and match your skills to best fit your personality. With our bundled courses you will have a guide to give you the storytelling skills you need for success.
Difficulty: Pro
Lifetime Access
Your access to the class materials never expires. Take the class at your own pace and in your own time.
Expert Instructors
Learn from industry experts who are passionate about teaching.
Learn Anywhere
Switch between your devices without losing your place.
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TIM BURGARD: LIVE ACTION STORYBOARD WORKSHOP
Difficulty: Pro
If you want to work in movies you need the honest information from working pros. Who better to learn from than an artist with years of industry experience working with the best live action film directors. Dive deep into filmmaking world in this 8 weeks course to learn a solid storyboard method, the same Tim Burgard has been using and mastering in top productions.
Learn more about Live Action Storyboard Workshop with Tim Burgard
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ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUES
Difficulty: Pro
Holy crap it’s ROBERT VALLEY!! Aeon Flux, Gorillaz, Beatles Rockband, Tron, the list goes one and on of incredible work Robert has produced. Now he’s going to show you his method working in Photoshop. This is not your normal Photoshop storyboard tutorial. Robert has some crazy wicked skills creating his shots from thumbnails to boards and even animating unbelievably complex shots directly in Photoshop.
Here’s your chance to learn from one of the top story guys in the business. He discusses his latest film and kickstarter project. StoryboardArt host Sergio Paez leads the discussion.
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DIGITAL STORYTELLING METHOD
Difficulty: Pro
Right before his Academy Award nomination, Robert Valley allowed our team and a few lucky viewers into his studio and process while creating parts of Murder One video by Metallica!
Learn from Robert itself how to pull out an entire music video using only ingredients you already have at home -hint: Even Adobe wishes to know this secret.
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CAREER SUPERCHARGE
Difficulty: Pro
Animation Director Brad Rau and Sergio Paez guide you through a career focused improvement course. What you need to focus on to better you skills and job approach and a structured plan for drawing improvement. Get the ultimate reading list for story artists and the “NO” list of things to avoid while applying to companies and talking to recruiters. Video includes lecture, slides, and screen share demos along with a question and answer session at the end.
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DRAWING TRAINING SESSIONS
Difficulty: Pro
A series of drawing lessons from Sergio that focus on speed tricks, perspective, and drawing shortcuts. Lessons include homework assignments and user examples that you can practice and test your progress. Over 3 hours of recorded content and training.