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
Switch between your devices without losing your place.
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VISUAL STORY COURSE
Difficulty: Novice
Sign up to get access to the FREE Visual Story Crash Course.
Learn the foundations of visual storytelling to boost your stories, pitches, and illustrations. Director Sergio Paez guides you through unique focus lessons. Sign up today to secure your spot.
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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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SCRIPTS AND ANIMATICS
Difficulty: Medium
Director Sergio Paez shows you how to storyboard a dramatic subject matter from the script and create an animatic.This is a real world exercise designed to strengthen your visual storytelling and shot analysis skills.
Take an existing script and go through all the steps involved from conception to final export.Follow along with each step and create your own version for your portfolio! -
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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THE STORY ARTIST MENTORSHIP 2020
Difficulty: Pro
1 year Mentorship – Become faster, more skilled, more confident – this course will bridge high-end story production with drawing techniques and career preparation to use for your own story development. Designed to level up your career, and transform you into a confident VISUAL STORYTELLER.
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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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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.
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Storytelling Techniques with Robert Valley
Difficulty: Pro
Learn from the AWARD-WINNING MASTER of unique storytelling, amazing camera angles and animation.
Robert tells us about how to go all the way from a successful crowded graphic novel to an Academy Award nominated short film and everything in between. Learn Robert’s techniques of how he created the latest Metallica music video working directly in Photoshop. -Hint: Even Adobe wishes they knew his secret!