As a director/storyboard artist working in animation for the last ten years, I have exclusively worked on action shows and movies! I’ve worked for almost every major studio, on a multitude of different projects ranging in age and tone. Action storyboarding is a small community of artists, and we all have our specific workflow that helps us maximize the visual impact of our scenes. I would love to show you my techniques!

If you're an artist, you sign up for live drawing sessions to practice and study. But if you're a writer, you're just supposed to sit alone in the dark and figure this stuff out yourself? WHO MAKES THESE RULES?!

This 6-week intensive course, focuses on the fundamentals of storyboarding a clear engaging animated scene. You will learn how to re-break your script for storyboarding, research references, thumbnail your script, shot designing, and finally storyboarding it from a character driven point-of-view with The Umbrella Method. By the end of the course, students will develop a better understanding on how to storyboard an animated scene.

Recordings of Chris and Justin's 2020 class. This class focuses on the fundamentals of storyboarding (staging, cutting, cinematic film language, etc.) thumbnails, to roughs, to cleans and creating characters and moments that come to life. By the end of these recorded lectures, students will have the ability to create a finished portfolio for storyboarding in television animation.

This eight week intensive course walks you through the process of writing your original animated pilot, from concept to completed script. Bill covers everything from the fundamentals of TV storytelling to utilizing the full potential of animation in your writing. This includes helping you develop a personal connection to your idea while crafting it into something universal that could sustain a series. Bill also offers a practical breakdown of

We've designed this course to be tailored specifically for aspiring artists and creative people interested in making and publishing their own graphic novel. Self publishing a book of any kind is a complicated process, and a graphic novel is no different. This course will lay out all the different steps from idea to print. You will not find a more in-depth course on creating graphic novels and comic books anywhere else.

Mitch Leeuwe 7 books and videos

Storyboarding is a very tough business, and a new storyboarder really needs to have their wits about them and have professional savvy to survive in this competitive field. Storyboarding: Rules of Thumb offers highly illustrative examples of basic storyboarding concepts, as well as sound, career-oriented advice for the new artist. This book also features a number of veteran storyboard artists sharing their experiences in the professional world.