Creation of a Children's Picturebook
Storyboard Transfer and Reading Test
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Storyboard Transfer and Reading Test
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to transfer our storyboard to an eight page booklet to put together the mockup. Once assembled, we will do a reading test to check the readability of the visual narration and in combination with the text, and if it has a good rhythm.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: Storyboard Transfer and Reading Test, 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
“Storyboard Transfer and Reading Test We're now on the last stage of our picture book project. Once your storyboard's been defined, once you're satisfied with it, you're gonna turn it into a book. This is the final stage, putting your composition together into a book. Before putting our project mock-up together, let me show you some examples out of my published book collection. This is the original mock-up I sent to a bunch of editors for what later on became my "Huff & Puff" book. You'll probably recognize some pictures that made it to the final version. Just as storyboards get several ...”
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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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