Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
Storyboard or story diagram
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez , Writer and comic artist
About the video: Storyboard or story diagram
Overview
“Here we will see how to articulate our loose ideas and narrative intentions in a basic structure that allows us to build a story. Define the characters that we will create, characterize the world in which they will unfold and the fundamental parts of the story that they will develop in an entertaining way, that invites the reader to follow it.”
In this video lesson Gabriel Rodríguez addresses the topic: Storyboard or story diagram, which is part of the Domestika online course: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics. Create fantasy comic strips from the technical script to the sheet in pencil.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this second lesson, we are going to start to work the first part of the material of our exercise of final project, that consists in doing the basic run-up of the script of our story. In my case, let's work on a letter-sized sheet, folded in eight, to get eight small paper tokens that we will use as the basic unit of work. If you prefer, or if you find it more comfortable, it can be in "post-it" or in chips of that type that come with or without adhesive, but the important thing is to allow them to work in a format that is easy to save and organize. The advantage of working on small paper...”
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Course summary for: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Traditional illustration
Gabriel Rodríguez
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez
Gabriel Rodríguez Pérez studied architecture at the Catholic University of Chile, although he has been dedicated exclusively to comic drawing and screenwriting for almost fifteen years. At the end of 2002 he published his first comic book for IDW Publishing and since then he has worked with them on more than thirty editorial projects.
In 2008 he created, along with screenwriter Joe Hill, the horror and fantasy series Locke & Key, which has been extended from two graphic novels to a series of six books in more than fifteen languages and an adaptation as a series for Netflix.
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