Creation of a Children's Picturebook
The First Thumbnails and the Storyboard 1
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: The First Thumbnails and the Storyboard 1
Overview
“In this lesson we will distribute the text over the eight pages and make short graphic notes on what the text will accompany on each page. What is defined in the thumbnails is passed to a larger storyboard to verify that the visual sequence works. Here we will apply what we studied about storytelling and visual sequencing in the previous unit.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: The First Thumbnails and the Storyboard 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of a Children's Picturebook. Learn how to plan and create your picturebook project from scratch combining narrative and illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“Your First Thumbnails and Storyboard The idea for a picture book can start with the images or with the text, but in this project, we'll start with an existing text. What I do is start looking at the text to see how I could distribute it over eight pages, considering rhythm and what will go on each page for visual narrative. This one is fairly easy to distribute because it's a verse. Right away, I think that each phrase will have its own page. I like the rhythm this song has and I think one per page would be a nice distribution. But we have to decide where it'll be silent. You already know t...”
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Course summary for: Creation of a Children's Picturebook
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Claudia Rueda
A course by Claudia Rueda
Colombian author and illustrator Claudia Rueda is a New York Times best-selling author with over thirty published illustrated books. Her work has been published in the US, Mexico, Spain, and has been translated into more than fifteen languages in Asia and Europe. She was also nominated for major awards such as Hans Cristian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren.
Claudia studied Law and Arts and worked as a political caricaturist in Colombia. She then furthered her studies in children’s book illustration at UC Berkeley. She has a master’s in creative writing from Lesley University and won the Billie M. Levy investigation grant from the Children’s Literature Collection from the North-West. Claudia is also a teacher in the creative writing masters at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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