Grade 6: Storyboarding
In today's lesson you will have received a handout of the "Comic Strip Artist's Kit". We will be using this to discuss how to place objects within a comic panel. As a "hands-on", print out a blank template from Comic Life and think about what should be told in each panel.
We will be using these storyboarding techniques for our Visibadge project and the next project on Stop-Frame animation.
Click below to continue reading about the history of the handout, and today's lesson.
This kit was developed by Caron Van Olsen, a famous Disney artist. Here's the history of the kit:
I wrote and drew those sketches around 1975 and I'm so tickled to know that people still find them helpful today. It started as a slide presentation for my boss to show at the Disney meeting in Frankfurt. It went over so well that he asked me to expand on it when he returned. They printed 2000 copies and mailed it to all the Disney offices. My friend John Pomeroy asked for some to give to the animators at the studio. that was the time when the animation training program was going on. Frank Thomas saw it and used it for an animation class he was teaching at the Screen Cartoonists Guild. That's how some sketches wound up in the book that he and Ollie wrote, "the Illusion of Life".
The sketches and text from this entry were originally posted by Mark Kennedy on his weblog.
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