These video tutorials will show you how two storyboard artists approach their craft: working in Photoshop to draw and using Flash to create an animatic. Topics covered include....

-Working off a script
-Camera Positioning and Composition
-Referencing Character Models
-Tips for Working in Photoshop or Paper
-Cleaning up hand-drawn boards
-Showing Movement
-Adding Line Weight, Depth, and Shadows
-Balancing between details and deadlines
-Maintaining continuity between shots
-Being aware of the tangent
-Anticipating how the animators might work with the characters
-Making your shots "readable" and simple for the animators
-Time saving techniques for similar shots
-Applying the rule of thirds
-Setting up an animatic with audio in Flash
-And tips on what's expected of you as a professional storyboard artist

This course is taught by two instructors, David Carbley and Rachel Anchors, who are both professional storyboard artists at Spark-Flow Studios. This is the first in a series of tutorials from Spark-Flow Studios where the artists and animators take you through the production of it's upcoming animated web series Pumpk & Cham and Pai, the epic adventures of two clumsy scarecrows (Pumpk and Cham) and a teenage witch (Pai) who begin their travels to become the scariest monsters in the world!