Introduction to Storyboarding for Animated Films
Characters
A course by Petra Popescu , Storyboard Artist
About the video: Characters
Overview
“Now I'll show you how I use gesture drawings to move characters in a scene.”
In this video lesson Petra Popescu addresses the topic: Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Storyboarding for Animated Films. Learn to visually interpret a script and capture the emotions of the plot and characters with your drawings.
Partial transcription of the video
“Thank you. In our previous lesson. we laid the groundwork. and now it's time to introduce the characters into the action. This lesson will concentrate on animation techniques and the art of gesture drawing. The key for this lesson is to start as simply as possible. Similar to the thumbnails. we want to quickly and effortlessly try things out here. No one expects you to deliver the perfect drawing right away. There are storyboard artists who can do everything in one go. but they are exceptions and it takes many years of experience to reach that level. Most of us require several stages to ach...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Storyboarding for Animated Films
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Animated Illustration, Animation, Character Animation, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Motion Graphics, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Petra Popescu
A course by Petra Popescu
Petra Popescu lives in Germany and works as a freelance storyboard artist in the animation industry. After graduating with a degree in graphic design, she found her calling during the first few projects she worked on as a prop and character designer and director's assistant. She started exploring the world of black-and-white Japanese comics at a young age thanks to anime series Dragon Ball, sparking her life-long fascination with the expressive power of a few simple lines and shading.
The current aim of her art is to elicit intense emotions from her audience using minimal resources. Her work ranges from film projects and video game cinematics to US and German children's shows, as well as movies and series for Netflix.
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