Animate CC: Storyboarding

Discover how to set up a storyboard in Adobe Animate CC. Learn how to do fades and cross dissolves, create vertical pan shots, pose characters, add and edit audio, and more.

Studios can create enormous problems if they begin projects in a disorderly manner. By creating a thoughtful, detailed storyboard, you can clarify your ideas and get your project off on the right foot. In this course, learn how to set up a storyboard in Adobe Animate CC. Dermot O'Connor demonstrates how to set up your project, do fades and cross dissolves, create vertical pan shots, work with characters like marching robot monsters), add and edit audio, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What to know
• Using the exercise files

1. Setup

• Project setup
• Scene template
• Establishing shot

2. Storyboarding

• An overview of Adobe Animate
• Titles, zoom, and fade
• Medium shot and cross dissolve
• Posing a character
• Creating groups
• Extreme close-up
• Insert shot: UFO downshot
• Vertical pan
• Robots beam down
• Marching robots
• Acting scene
• Crowd scene
• Freeze frame with titles
• Tying it down
• Editing audio

3. Cleanup and Assembly

• Clean up shot and second scene
• Doing it wrong: do's and dont's
• Final production and export

Conclusion

• Next steps