Animate Your Imagination: Create an Animated Storyboard From Scratch

What You Will Learn?

• Take your animation skills to the next level by learning how to direct and storyboard your own animated short..
• Stepping into a world of dragons, trolls, and talking dogs is just an average day for animator and story artist, Toniko Pantoja. Over the past decade, Toniko has spent countless hours developing captivating characters, directing animated shorts, and collaborating on blockbusters like How to Train your Dragon 3, Trolls, and Croods 2. Toniko’s technical precision and unique animation style has captivated millions of viewers helping him build  a community of over 335K on YouTube and Instagram. .
• In this class, Toniko draws from both his personal and professional experience to help animation amateurs develop an animated short through storyboarding and creating an animatic. With Toniko by your side, you’ll tap into your inner filmmaker, director and voice actor as you create characters, dialogue, and a compelling story for your animated piece..
• Together with Toniko, you’ll:.
• Plus, get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Toniko’s creative process as he creates an original short using his own characters. .
• Whether you’re looking to develop your storytelling skills through animation or share your ideas with a potential collaborator or producer, this class will not only help you come up with log lines for your stories, but also communicate your exact vision through a well-produced animatic.  .
• Basic animation knowledge and illustration skills will help streamline your learning process in this class. To follow along with Toniko, you’ll need a computer, Adobe Animate, paper and pencil, and a drawing or graphics tablet. If you don’t have a tablet, you can also draw within Adobe Animate using a mouse. To continue your animation journey, explore Toniko’s full Animation Learning Path..