Designing Effective Storyboards in Illustrator and InDesign
In this Illustrator and InDesign tutorial, you'll learn to plan, create, and present your storyboards to your director in a way that is both efficient and great to look at. You'll work both in Illustrator and InDesign. Software required: Illustrator CC 2014, InDesign CC 2014.
What you'll learn
By the end of this Illustrator and InDesign training, you'll be able to quickly thumbnail your boards, clean up the art with a custom brush, and finally layout your boards in InDesign and get them ready for presentation. Software required: Illustrator CC 2014, InDesign CC 2014.
Table of contents
- Setting up Your Artboards 9m
- Thumbnailing Your Storyboards 11m
- Identifying Problems Within the Storyboard 9m
- Creating Custom Brushes for Clean Up 7m
- Outlining the Character 9m
- Cleaning the Storyboard 11m
- Adding the Props and Background 12m
- Shading the Character 11m
- Applying the Camera Pan and Lighting 10m
- Exporting Our Storyboards as jpg.s 6m
- Organizing InDesign for the Presentation 15m
- Scripting in InDesign 9m
- Completing the Final PDF 7m
About the author
Michael Grills Illustration is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The business was established in 2005 and since then Michael has been collaborating with design agencies, editorial, publishers, video directors, and game makers from all over the world, as well as doing art for illustration fans. Michael graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design and went directly to Bioware Corp. in Edmonton, getting hands-on experience making AAA, story-driven RPGs. When he started his family, he dec... more