Becoming an Animated Film Maker: Story & Character – (Certificate)

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How to brainstorm film ideas? How to tell a compelling story with moving pictures and how to design characters that will compliment your story? These and many other questions will be tackled as you acquire the theory enabling you to think like an animated film maker and emerge from the course with character concepts, a storyboard and an animatic for your own would-be animated short film.

The first day of this course is aimed at getting the imaginative juices flowing as participants engage both individually and in teams in creative story exercises. In the following days, you will further develop your own short animated film story as the class tries multiple story structures and shares their ideas with each other. As the outline for the final short animated film is forming, character concept will be introduced, culminating in drawn character turnaround sheets. The drawing continues, accompanied by the theory of transferring a story idea into moving pictures, as the final short story finds its way onto a storyboard and later on into an animatic. The course gives you a ‘ready-to-pitch’ package of your own short animated film concept which then gives you the possibility of using it to make your own animated film.