Introduction to Storyboarding
Looking at Others Do What They Do
A course by Laura Ewing Ferrer , Character Designer and Storyboarder
About the video: Looking at Others Do What They Do
Overview
“In this lesson, we will dive into a scene from Zootopia. We will dissect it and learn how it was constructed.”
In this video lesson Laura Ewing Ferrer addresses the topic: Looking at Others Do What They Do, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Storyboarding. Learn how to translate a script into creative illustrations that tell a story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Looking at Others Do What They Do Now we're going to look at a clip and analyse the director's choices. We'll do this a lot as storyboarders. Let's have a look at what others do, so we can get inspired. Here we go. I'm going to show you the clip first with sound, we'll see the whole thing, and then I'm going to go around and break it up shot by shot so you can see what I'm seeing, and how the composition worked, and just get more insight in this. So, let's have a look at the clip. "Zootopia" Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush (2016) -Gary, quit it, you'll start a howl. -I didn't start it!...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Storyboarding
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Art Direction, Audiovisual Production, Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

Laura Ewing Ferrer
A course by Laura Ewing Ferrer
Laura Ewing is a freelance illustrator and storyboarder with a passion for animation. As a young girl, she would spend hours watching documentaries and DVD extras of her favorite animated films, in disbelief that creating these stories was a real job.
She went on to study Graphic Design, with a specialization in illustration, to then study Fine Art at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy, and obtained her Master’s degree in storyboarding at Lightbox Academy.
Her diverse experience in the industry includes working in-house at Smile and Learn, as well as working as a freelance artist for documentaries, pilot series, and publishing houses. She most recently worked on a storyboarding project for a live-action movie, which will be released in 2021 and for Madrid 2120 as a storyboard artist, which received this year’s Goya award for best short animation.
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