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INTRODUCING

THE

Visual Story Bootcamp

A complete visual storytelling bundle to get your skills at the pro level and boost your portfolio!

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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 visual stories. Designed to level up your career, and transform you into a confident VISUAL STORYTELLER.
  • LIFETIME ACCESS
  • Over 20 HOURS of Visual Storytelling Training
  • Animatic training
  • Networking guides
  • Taught by working professionals
  • Community Facebook group, Resources
  • LIFETIME ACCESS TO THE LESSONS IN THE VISUAL STORY COURSE
  • AND MORE

LED BY DIRECTOR  SERGIO PAEZ & PIXAR VETERAN NICK SUNG

MEET YOUR MENTORS

Sergio Paez is an animation director and veteran story artist with over 20 years of industry experience. Sergio was most recently an episodic director on the Emmy Award winning series Star Wars Resistance and Star Wars Rebels from Lucasfilm. His film credits in the United States and Europe include projects for Pixar, Lucasfilm, Sony, and Sega. Sergio is a founding member of the visual storytelling community StoryboardArt.org.

THERE IS NO OTHER STORY CONTENT OUT THERE LIKE THIS

The problem with most courses out there is they typically have the mentality of 'just a tutorial'.  Rarely do you see lessons that take you all the way through from start to finish, rather they cover a small piece, and the output, the final image or end result of the lesson is never at the level of quality that you would see a real production. So you're learning to do "tutorial quality" work and never anything that you can do in the real world.

The thing is - it's that last 10% or 20% that you don't ever get to see, which makes up for most of the result. The little tweaks, subtlety or getting your work approved is what is so critical and seems to without-fail be overlooked in every single course or lesson you ever see.

Colleges and universities try their best to give storyboarding classes or film classes but nothing out there will take you to the finish line with your portfolio. Plus, tuition at these schools for one year can cost up to $30,000!! And you still don’t get the skills you need to land a job.

The only way to get the kind of intense learning found inside the Visual Story Bootcamp is to get hired by the big studios and learn the hard way on the inside from other veteran artists... if they are willing to take the time to mentor you.

How can you land the jobs you want if you do not have insider access to veteran pros?

We solved that problem inside the Visual Story Bootcamp. You will get the attention you need to improve your visual storytelling.

THE VISUAL STORY BOOTCAMP

What's Inside?

Drawing for Storyboards: Learn a Kickass Drawing Method For Storyboards 

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 4 hours of recorded content and training. 

What’s in the course?

  • 7 Drawing Lessons Focused On Storyboards: Learn a working method to strengthen your fundamentals, and get an edge in the film world. Our unique streaming setup gives you access to techniques previously only available from veterans in the major animations studios. Learn directly from an artist who’s been in the production trenches.

THE VISUAL STORY COURSE: Learn to make your visual stories EPIC!

The course you already know and love, get the chance to practice over and over following along each lesson. All 5 lessons and bonuses included.

What’s in the course?

  • Lesson 1- Composition and Drawing for Storyboards: Visual storytelling takes a special set of skills that is not just about drawing pretty pictures. Composition matters when you want to influence an audience. Learn the visual storytelling methods that will make your shots engage your audience every time.
  • Lesson 2- Staging and Camera moves: Your scene will come to life if you have interesting staging with quality camera moves. But the big question is where to place your characters for maximum visual impact? In this lesson we breakdown staging and moving the camera to make even the toughest scenes feel seamless.
  • Lesson 3- Emotional Impact in your characters: The basis of our visual stories come from character emotions. You need to get the emotions right in order to have the actions matter in the story and connect with your audience. We analyze the root the character motivations and show you how to make this visual. 
  • Lesson 4- Polishing your boards and Previz: Storyboards need to be produced quickly and with maximum clarity. In this lesson we show you techniques to polish your boards so you create a drawing shorthand. We also introduce previz methods to better visualize tough shots.
  • Lesson 5- Creating an animatic:  Creating an animatic is the best way to showcase your visual stories! If you create an animatic correctly you can better sell your idea and grab a viewer’s attention from the first few shots. We discuss the latest trends in story reels and create a complete visual story pitch.

The Story Artist Networking Course: Learn the Secrets of Pro Story Networking

Gain real world strategies for making professional contacts with artist Sergio Paez! We show you techniques and real world examples to connect with industry professionals and film companies. Improve your Story Artist Networking Skills Now! 

What’s in the course?

  • 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. Nurture contacts you already have and make new ones through social media strategies.
  • Our email template examples to contact recruiters and pros: These are email templates from actual messages sent to companies, artists, and freelance jobs. We include: Cover letter examples , Follow up emails for recruiters, Thank you emails, Freelance job emails.
  • Bonus guides: How to create a strong artist resume, How to build your story Portfolio, Build your professional presence on social media and your website.
  • Plus a recorded session with user Q&A, topics include: How to remove social awkwardness, Creating lasting professional relationships, Getting on the radar for recruiters, Tips to cold contact the pros, How to network if you live outside of Hollywood. 

Nick Sung drawing lecture: Tips for storyboarding

Pixar Artist Nick Sung gives us a drawing demo using the Walt Stanchfield method for drawing.

The key points are Performance, Clarity, and Caricature as key principles to apply to storyboards or any illustration.

Tim Burgard Industry Chat: Storyboard artist legend discusses how to navigate the industry 

Hollywood storyboard artist Tim Burgard sits with Sergio Paez to chat about his latest projects, industry trends, getting into the union and more.

Topics discussed:

  • When to show boards for a project under an NDA
  • Working with screen direction in video game cinematics
  • What its like working with Stephen Spielberg
  • Using previous contacts to get jobs
  • How to get into the union by working in commercials first
  • Working onsite vs. offsite

WE’VE ALSO INCLUDED THESE EXCLUSIVE BONUSES

1. Tony Santo Freelancing Bundle

$99 Value

Want To Be A Freelance Storyboard Artist?

Get Career Info & Job Planning From A Pro

Become a Successful Freelancer with Veteran Tony Santo, learn the business skills that will earn you money and get more clients.  A lot of people think that making real, meaningful income from freelancing is only for those with deep connections or years of industry experience. It’s not.  It’s about giving value to your first clients, creating a professional presence, and knowing how to market yourself.

*Once you understand these methods and techniques, you can use them to replicate this success and scale up your freelance client base. Once you get your first client it’s a lot easier to spread the word and get more.*  

2. Career Supercharge with Brad Rau

$99 Value

Learn The Key Tools To Supercharge Your Career

This course has what you need to focus on to better your skills 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.

Achieve High Quality Storytelling for TV • Ads • Movies • Video Games

The Career Supercharge Course covers the following topics:

  • The skills top professional story artists never leave at home.
  • The key tools that will set you apart from your competition!
  • Video includes lecture, slides, and screen share demos along with a recorded question and answer session at the end.
  • 2 Video lectures with over 3 hours of content

HERE'S WHAT OTHER ARTIST HAVE TO SAY...

"I can’t think of another “instructor/mentor” that has done so much to inspire and ignite my creativity. I’m taking what I’m learning here into other areas of my art and life. I’m anxious to look back on this year and see my potential growth.
Thank you Sergio, and the team at StoryboardArt.org for never giving up on us and pushing us towards greatness. Many blessings to you and yours,
Sincerely,"

-Ray Richardson

"Big thanks for great and detailed comments!! I really love the process that after every pass you go deeper and deeper with comments and tips. All that you say makes perfect sense.
For me this is a perfect way to learn."

-Timo Leppanen

"I also wanted to let you know that I enjoyed and learned so much about story and how important it is in any artistic endeavor. I'm a graphic designer looking to transition into motion design and realize how important story boarding is. Even in graphic design I now look at my compositions in this way. Thank you for offering such a class and from a pro like yourself!
Looking forward to more in the future! "

-Cassia Dominguez

"Thank you sooooooooooooooo much for funding this community, this is like huge treasure cave!
I just watched the video for beginner and learned a lot!
I'm too excited now, there are tones of words in my mind, let me start some sketch to calm down myself ^_______^
Thank you again and again!!!! " 

-Abby Goo

"I just wanted to write and say thanks for creating this for artists. I aspire to be a great storyteller, I know I have good ideas, but this is exactly what I need to get me moving in the right direction. I was accepted to USC’s master program and am so glad I didn’t go, otherwise in a few years I’d probably have a lifetime of debt. What you’re offering is so affordable and also priceless. So, thank you! "

-Ryan Gallet

GET INSTANT ACCESS TO ALL MATERIALS

Over 20+ hours of VISUAL STORY TRAINING

30 DAY  Money back guarantee

LIFETIME ACCESS

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • How is the course content delivered?

Once you sign up we will set up an account for you and give you access to all the material and exclusive content in the course. This includes all of the bonus materials as well. You'll get lifetime access to the videos, lessons, templates and other content included. All lessons are delivered in HD and can be watched streaming from any browser.

  •  What software or set up do I need?

This course focuses mostly on story techniques that can be used with any software package and even the good ol’ way of pencil and paper. You do not need any special software for the course.

That said, we will be talking about digital tools and techniques within different software packages throughout the course. This includes, Adobe suite, Photoshop, Autodesk Sketchbook, TVPaint, Maya, and Toonboom to name a few. You will also benefit greatly if you have a way to do digital drawings such as a tablet, ipad pro, Wacom Cintiq, or Microsoft surface. If none of that is available to you, you can still use traditional media like pencils and markers on paper. Simply scan them in or take hi res photos to share your progress in the Visual Story Bootcamp. For any other questions about materials please contact us directly.

  • How much time do I need to make the most of the Visual Story Bootcamp?

If you can spare at least 2 hours a week, you'll be able to make the most of this course. The more time you put in, the better, but a minimum of 2 hours every week is important. If you can't spare 2 hours each week, then maybe this course isn't right for you, or at least right now until you're able to free up a bit more time.

The course is self guided so you can go at your own pace. The course is designed to be 4 weeks long but if you need more time than that its ok.  Since every artist is different and works at their own pace, you can submit your assignments when you have them and Sergio and the community mentors will jump on to give you feedback. So even if you are busy one month, you can jump back on when you have time and still interact with the group.

Sometimes life stuff gets in the way, and so we can fall back behind a little, but it's fairly easy to catch up again when our time frees up, so never feel stressed that you are behind if that is the case.  Just put in a bit of extra time and get back up to speed, we're all here to help each other, and what makes this environment really great for keeping on track is that we are all going at our own pace but we're all helping and motivating each other too.

  • Will this course work for me if I'm not yet in the industry/still a student

I love that we do have a diverse group of people in the StoryboardArt community. Some artists have professional experience and others do not.
What is exciting is to see the growth in artists and be there when they really feel like they get it and the information really clicks.
By making an immersive course, a course that is ambitious and advanced, but explained thoroughly enough, it's going to be straight forward for you to follow even if you aren't yet in the industry. This is the course that will get you INTO the industry. But in addition, this is why we offer a 30-day guarantee. Try the entire course, and if you don't love it, send us an email, show us you've done the exercises, and get 100% refund. No catch, no tricks. 

  • What is the difference between this course and the Story Artist Mentorship?

This  Bootcamp is a compilation of courses focused on visual storytelling techniques and career info. You are able to go at your own pace and get feedback from Sergio and the rest of the StoryboardArt team.  The Mentorship is a different course in a group setting but with Sergio as a dedicated mentor. The Mentorship is much more intense with longer story assignments and a one year commitment.  The Bootcamp is more economical as a course but you still get a ton of high value content and access to our community group and resources. This Bootcamp course is a good foundation to build your portfolio or even prep your drawings for something more intense like the Mentorship later on.  

JOIN THE VISUAL STORY BOOTCAMP NOW

GET INSTANT  LIFETIME ACCESS TO:

Drawing for Storyboards : $397
Current Course ➔ THE VISUAL STORY COURSE : $499
Story Artist Networking : $75
Nick Sung Drawing Demo: $75
Tim Burgard Industry Chat : $75
PRIVATE DISCORD ACCESS: $199
Bonus course- Tony Santo & Brad Rau: $199

Total Value OVER: $1,500

Regular Bootcamp price: $499

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OUR PROMISE TO YOU

You’ll improve your drawing and storytelling,
or you get your money back

We're confident that if you put in the work, this Bootcamp is going to be a game-changer for you. All of our courses have a 30 day 100% refund guarantee. This means you can go through the entire 4 week course - and for whatever reason if you decide that the course isn't right for you, and as long as you can prove that you've done the work - We will gladly refund the entire cost of the course. This removes the entire risk from you - and places it entirely on us.

Get in touch with us if you have any questions!

THE FINE PRINT:

This course works if you do, but it does not do the work for you and it does not guarantee that you will make money or get clients. Though we have represented this course in the most honest and truthful way possible, and the methods we teach in this course have worked for us, your results may vary depending on a variety of factors including your skills, knowledge, ability, dedication, business savvy, etc. Because these factors vary according to each individual, we cannot and do not guarantee your success, income level, or ability to earn revenue

However if you show up and commit to the course, we will support you as much as we can in your efforts to reach your goals. It won’t happen overnight, but we give you the tools and strategies to get there. You are responsible for the results you achieve. We make every effort to provide you with quality information, strategy and guidance to achieve these results but in the end it is up to you.

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