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Visualize the narrative, characters, emotions, timing, staging, and framing to bring the Director’s vision to life.
Storyboard Artists create visualizations of scripts, or animatics, allowing the creative team to see the episode or film before full animation or shooting begins. ECA’s storyboard curriculum covers a large range of supportive courses, preparing students for a career as a storyboard artist.
Rigorously structured 4-month track
Focuses on storyboard design
Certificate of completion upon graduation
100% online & live; no pre-recorded courses
Runs online 8am-12pm PT, Mon-Fri
Honing skills from concept to completion
≈ 330 hours of live courses per track
Project-based curriculum
*The $5,000 tuition fees cover both $2,500 terms, to which are added $250 admissions fees to secure your seat into the Career Accelerator.
Our Storyboard Artist Certificate Track is designed to cultivate the best talent available for the entertainment industry, resulting in artistic integrity, ability, and a skill-set that is appreciated, respected, and able to flourish. This 4-month long track is split into two 2-month terms. Students are encouraged to take both terms, but may attend a single one as long as they meet the requirements (check our FAQ for more details).
(Spring Semester: Mar-Apr / Fall Semester: Sep-Oct)
(Spring Semester: May-Jun / Fall Semester: Nov-Dec)
101 – Professional Practices
102 – Portfolio Design
103 – Film Analysis
104 – Perspective
105 – Framing & Composition
106-1 – Gesture Drawing 1
107-1 – Storyboard Foundations 1
106-2 – Gesture Drawing 2
107-2 – Storyboard Foundations 2
108 – Storyboard Specifics
109 – Layout
110 – Storytelling
Break down and analyze movie scenes to understand the director’s intent. Student will build a solid foundation in a range of scene building techniques.
Learn how to portray a three-dimensional scene in 2D. Practice classical construction methods, such as the notion of volume, plane, and vanishing points. Techniques learned contribute to Layout stage of production.
Storyboard basics, beginning with scenarios and staging through the technical disciplines of decor, motion, framing, and storytelling. Understand the foundation of the storyboard art form and give life to a written story using a broad range of cinema techniques.
This course is a continuation of Storyboard Foundations 1. Students will leverage the fundamentals gained in the previous course, and push creativity when giving life to a script or story.
How to make all the elements of a scene work together as a whole. Students will practice perspective, scale, framing, and camera angles as they tell a story. Student will practice giving life to a scene composed of a diverse range of elements, from backgrounds to the addition of characters and props.
Foundations in basic anatomy and posing. Create characters based on inspiration from live models and pre-selected imagery that reflect the student’s unique style and creativity.
This course is a continuation of Gesture Drawing 1. Students will leverage the fundamentals learned in the previous course to push creativity in characters and their gestures.
Focus on the details of storyboarding when applied to specific media: animation, video games, live action, advertising, etc. Students will master the wide spectrum of storyboarding and gain an understanding of how all storyboarding methods intersect.
The process of conceptualizing environments, the characters within them, and camera movements. Design the stage on which the characters or special effects take place in both 2D and 3D.
*The $5,000 tuition fees cover both $2,500 terms, to which are added $250 admissions fees to secure your seat into the Career Accelerator.
Our revered faculty member’s experience collectively covers a number of remarkable disciplines which therein propels student success. Our instructors hail all the way from the United States to Turkey, Hong-Kong, Nigeria, Australia, France, Portugal and beyond. ECA believes in cultivating a global perspective.
Professional Practices
Film Analysis
Portfolio Design
Framing & Composition
+ Layout
Storyboard Specifics
Gesture Drawing
Storyboard Foundations
Perspective
Storytelling
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