Animating Concept Storyboards Using Photoshop and After Effects
Throughout these lessons we'll go over the steps necessary for creating concept storyboards. Software required: Photoshop CC & After Effects CC.
What you'll learn
Throughout these lessons we'll go over the steps necessary for creating concept storyboards. There are times when static storyboards aren't enough to articulate a scene to producers or directors. That's when we have to take our work to the next level and animate the boards into simple animatics, so there nothing is left to wonder, and the vision is fully conveyed. The steps are simple, but very crucial, and we'll be using both Photoshop and After Effects to complete our task. Software required: Photoshop CC & After Effects CC.
Table of contents
- Initial Storyboard Layouts 11m
- Roughing in Our Frames 11m
- Determining Reusable Assets 11m
- Laying Down Line Art 11m
- Filling in and Flushing out Our Assets 11m
- Finishing up Our Animatable Assets 11m
- Setting up and Importing Our Footage 11m
- Organizing Our Asset Layers 11m
- Animating Our Background Asset 11m
- Refining Our Shot Animations 11m
- Creating Depth with Color Effects 12m
- Reviewing Completed Shots 11m
- Adding Our Final Touches 11m
- Editing the Final Sequence 11m
- Working with the Render Queue 10m
About the author
Alex Alvarado is a Concept Artist for Star Team LLC in Burbank, California. He has been working in video games for the past 5 years, as well as in film and television. Alex received his BA in Media Arts and Animation in 2003. Over the years, he has developed a broad skill-set that ranges from illustration to 3d modeling to motion graphics and animation to architectural rendering. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his family. When he isn’t in front of a computer working on his ne... more