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Telling a Story

Lesson 1 in Visual Storytelling

Lesson Information

This lesson will take you through the initial ideation process, helping you to find the main concept for your story. You'll gather references, sketch out various ideas, and finally create a set of thumbnails which will guide your paintings as you continue forward.

Homework

Who Tells Your Story?

Use the Brief Builder app (www.briefbuilder.app) to come up with ideas for your story concept. You don't need to create exactly what it says, but instead let it spark your creativity. Make sure the story you choose is something you're excited about, and would enjoy spending time to bring to life. Then, write a down a simple logline for that story, which you can refer back to later.

Starting Point

Spend some time gathering references, keeping everything well-organized in subfolders. When you're finished gathering images, choose a set of key images that most represent your project and use them to create a PureRef moodboard.

Thinking Visually

Begin sketching a few of your ideas. Don't worry about creating a composition that will represent any of your actual paintings, this stage is about defining what the props, characters or other elements of your scene look like.

Big Things Have Small Beginnings

Create thumbnails of each image that will go in your sequence. When you're finished, upload your thumbnails to the Learn Squared homework gallery.

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Kenan Jackson 10 months ago

Is there a spot where you can focus discussion on this project a little more? discord doesn't seem to have a specific area on this class. Can you even get in contact with the instructor?

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Tommy Miles 10 months ago

I couldn’t quite make out the name of the bande dessinnée artists. The one I was looking for seemed to be by someone called Tarkan with a series called L’en Feist de trios but I’m pretty sure I’ve got that completely wrong

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Damien Picard 10 months ago

Hi Tommy,
The bande dessinée you're looking for is "Lanfeust de Troy" by Didier Tarquin.
Hope that helps :)

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Kenan Jackson 10 months ago

I am having trouble coming up with a story, well more specifically a sequence to put into frames. Is anyone having this problem? I'm using the brief builder but it's not really helping me come up with a scene.

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Guglielmo Meacci 10 months ago

i always try to think of movies/anime to help me into desinging my scenes. i think of my main story and i try to show a piece of it: a moment, an action or whatever.

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Kenan Jackson 10 months ago

How do you properly set up your banner? mine keeps getting stretched and I can't move it around to place it how I want it.

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Cody Clark 10 months ago

If you hover over the upload button icon thingy it tells you the sizes you need. i just made sure mine was one of them exactly and it worked out.

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Josh Norman 10 months ago

I can't find anything on when assignments are due, are they even reviewed?

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Kenan Jackson 10 months ago

Carlos Morales, do you know if we get feedback though?

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Carlos Morales 10 months ago

hi, this isn't a mentorship,so you put your deadline.

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Courage Ogie 10 months ago

For the homework, how much of the props, characters and other stuff should I do in this stage? Is it just the stuff I think Ill see in my potential sequence or more?

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Igor Titov 10 months ago

Until you're happy with the results whilst learning.

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Cody Clark 10 months ago

There are a couple of great examples in the homework section that others have done.

Homework can be cool.

Check out some of the amazing work Telling a Story students have created by doing their homework.

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