YOUR CHARACTER DRIVEN TEASER DEVELOPMENT

Introduce your characters through action in storyboards that can be produced as project teaser later in development

Date 22.7. - 2.8.2024

Available capacity 5 projects New

Language English

Location Litomysl, Czech Republic

Price per Project

2 500 EUR

in one lab

Discount

20% Off

when submitting a project in 2 or 3 labs

Status Open Registration

Deadline:

SUBMIT PROJECT

This lab transforms storyboarding into a form of directing, emphasizing the creation of comprehensive sequences that showcase a deep understanding of characters and their motivations.

The aim of the lab is to bring ideas for scenes introducing characters into visual form. Bring your project and have your director to embark on a captivating journey into the world of visual storytelling. Uncover the art of presenting information in visually compelling ways, as you master the strategic decisions that breathe life into scenes. Shape character entrances, surprise revelations, and camera placement. Gain insights on infusing excitement into your drawings and bringing scenes to life, all while delving into the psychology of character thinking. Final boards can serve as a foundation for your project teaser.

On Completion of This Lab, Your Team Will

Get a sense of the art of storyboarding as a form of directing characters
Conveying character personalities and motivations through visual actions
Implying mood through camera techniques
Achieving convincing camera movement
End up with scenes introducing your characters potentially used for your project teaser
Gain valuable experience directing visual artists as a team
Have your ideas supervised by an accomplished professional artist (mentor)
Bring the storyboarded scenes into the Character Design and Worldbuilding labs as a visual assignment to the artists

Your mentors

Tom Owens

Full Bio

How it works

Producers with a project in the lab can bring either their own creative team including director and storyboard artist(s). Alternatively, we help to form a team from participating artists. The capacity is maximum 5 projects per lab.

Priority for participation will be given to projects that actively engage in other labs, particularly the Character Design and World-Building Art Lab. This exclusive opportunity allows producers to integrate their storyboarding endeavours with comprehensive character development and world-building experiences, fostering a cohesive and enriched creative process.

Lab Description

Storyboarding is the art of revealing information in the most visually interesting way possible.

As a story artist, you get to decide how and when the character enters, how to reveal the surprise, how to trick the audience, where to place the camera and what to look at.
How do you get the most interest out of a scene? what can you find in an assignment to make yourself excited to draw it? what makes the scene come to life? where do you put the camera? how and when do you move the camera? how can you make dialogue more interesting? what are the characters thinking?
Storyboarding is a form of directing. As a board artist, your role involves presenting comprehensive sequences for the director’s consideration. It requires a deep understanding of the characters, enabling you to convey their personalities and motivations through visual actions. The objective is not solely to create aesthetically pleasing images; rather, it involves a broader focus on storytelling and character development.

“We’ll discuss all of this over the course, as well as learn how to imply mood with camera. i will discuss how i approach storyboarding, how i think about shots and how to achieve convincing camera movement in photoshop. i think storyboarding is the best part of the animation process, i hope to get you excited about it as well.” Tom Owens, mentor of the lab.

Who is it for

Director of a project, who actively takes part in the lab and leads team of artists with help of the mentor.

Director represents the producer during the lab, ensuring being focused and productive collaboration. Ideally, the producer is present on-site, or he can take form of on/line as well.

Prerequisite

In order to be eligible for the lab, along with your registration you need to submit:

Project synopsis
Motivation letter emphasising career motivation and vision for a project

Fees and Funding, Cancelation policy

Fee for producers

2 500 EUR per project in a lab

Price includes training fee for max 2 artists in the team (your own, or we help to form a team from individual participating artists), mentor fee overseeing development on your project, and participation of a director and producer.

General conditions

Possibility to pay in installments.
We advise participants to apply for scholarships for participation fees and/or travel costs in their countries, as many public film funding bodies are usually supporting such training costs.
The fee covers the fee of the course. The fee does NOT include accommodation, board and tuition during workshops and travel.
Approximate living costs during your stay in the Czech Republic:
- Accommodation at the venue: 25 EUR / night
- Breakfast at the hotel – 5 EUR
- Restaurant meal between 5 – 10 EUR
- Grocery in general – 50 EUR per person a week

Funding for Czech employees and freelancers

Czech Labour Office (Úřad práce) offers to cover up to 85% of the course fee within the so-called POVEZ II project (Support of Vocational Training for Employees II). See the details and conditions here.

Cancellation Policy

The fee of 30% off the course price applies when canceling 45 days before the start of the course into which one gets accepted.

Mentors

Direct interaction
with seasoned
industry
professionals

Our Mentors

Location & facilities

Litomyšl

The courses and labs are held in the facility of EUROPEAN TRAINING CENTER
in a picturesque small town Litomyšl in the middle of the Czech Republic
(about 140 km from Prague).

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