Animated Micro-Stories with After Effects

Overview

“Finally it was time to structure our microhistory in 3 acts that will help us to have clarity in what we want to tell and in this way we can make a storyboard.”

In this video lesson Sociedad Fantasma addresses the topic: Storyboard, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Micro-Stories with After Effects. Learn the secrets to storytelling, character design, and motion graphics.

Partial transcription of the video

“As the fourth step. we will write the essence of our story in three acts. For this. we will revisit the plot you wrote. starting from the brainstorming. the plot in the tweet. The three-act structure is a technique for writing stories that we will use to determine how our story is told. This structure tells us that in the first act we will introduce our characters and the setting. Here. we introduce our characters. We won't delve deeply into them. It's a straightforward introduction. just enough to learn their names and perhaps get a glimpse of their physical appearance. And speaking of the...”

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Course summary for: Animated Micro-Stories with After Effects

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (403)
• 10904 students
• 5 units
• 26 lessons (5h 27m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Character Design, Motion Graphics, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Video Editing