Visual Development & Storyboard

SB3 Advanced Storyboarding

This class expands on previous skill sets with an emphasis on finding your filmmaking voice, improving your technical skills, and achieving the maximum impact on your boards. Great importance is placed on the audience experience, pitching, boarding for animatics, and creating pieces that fit your career goals. Basics such as composition and effective shorthand will be reinforced, while advanced topics such as action, acting, pacing, and pitching will be explored.

- Action, Action, and Cinematic Staging

- Demos (Script breakdown and anatomy simplification)

- Rhythm and Pacing

- Creating a Piece that Highlights your Strengths

- Putting Together a Competitive Portfolio

- Pitching, Shorthands, and Professional Work Habits

Enrollment is limited to 15 students.

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Term

Time

Format

Live (Recorded)

Location

Online Course

Duration

Price

Suggested Materials

Photoshop or Storyboard Pro

Requirements

Computer with Storyboard Pro or Photoshop. High Speed Internet. Mic (Highly Recommended) And Camera (Optional).

Prerequisite

Experience with basic drawing, gesture, perspective, and some fundamental level of storyboarding.

What you'll learn

Cinematic and Action StagingStoryboarding from a ScriptLearning Professional Techniques (including pitching) and Studio PipelinePortfolio Development / Presentation

Meet Your Instructor

Trey Buongiorno

Episode Director, Story Artist & Instructor

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Class Starts:

Monday, May. 19, 2025

Term

summer

Time

Monday 7:00pm - 10:00pm (PST)

Format

Live (Recorded)

Duration

10 - Weeks Course

Location

Online Course

Price

$820.00

Trey Buongiorno is currently a Story Artist at Dreamworks Animation working on an unannounced project, previously on The Bad Guys 2 and Kung Fu Panda 4. Before moving to feature, he spent time directing at Disney TVA on Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Big Hero 6: The Series, and developed/directed Disney’s Chibi Tiny Tales. Other clients include Nickelodeon, Sony, and Mattel. He is also the author of a manga-style webcomic called Element.

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