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:
- Brainstorm the type of story you want to share through animation
- Write an intriguing log line that summarizes your characters, setting and conflict
- Create a rough outline of your story and dialogue
- Use storyboarding to map out your animated short shot by shot
- Add timing and sound to your animated short through an animatic
