STARTS FEBRUARY 6! 

If you feel stuck with your work, need some motivation, or just want to brush up on your skills and learn new things, come learn with me!

This is a design heavy workshop with a focus on worldbuilding and adding personality to your work. Basic perspective knowledge required. This class will be taught from the ground up! Skills you’ll be working on are:
Design from a story focused lens
Composition
Making a cohesive story from start to finish
Developing a professional workflow from reference gathering to thumbnailing and being comfortable making design iterations.
Generating ideas and helping yourself get out of “drawing block”Basic Blender (and I mean basic!)

9 Weeks packed full of information:
Week 1: Character creation and world building basics! We need to know all about your character in order to build your world. But before that, let’s figure out your personal mythology! What do you like to draw, what kind of stories do you like to see? We’ll work through my creative process to start a project that’s brimming with life. Ideating, reference gathering, thumbnailing
 
Week 2: Prop Design. Enhance your story and worldbuilding with props! Is your character an adventurer? A cook? What kind of items can we give to them to help show their personality and life. Create 3 props
 
Week 3: Creating the environment piece by piece! Step 1: Building designLet’s start small! Design a house for your character! This can be a hide out, a cottage, or a house. Keep it on the simpler side so we can design a nice environment and have your building be the star! Thumbnailing and concepting houses. Playing Barbie mentality: Dress up your designs appropriately.
 
Week 4: Building design part 2 & easy 3d blockouts. Finishing the building design, doing some close ups & callouts. Learn how to use Blender to block out scenes and help with complex perspective.

Week 5: Interior Cutaway We are going inside! Let’s design a cool interior with our step-by-step process! Thumbnail, ref gather, and doodle your floorplan. How to break up the square floorplan. Making your house catered to your character and enhance the story

Week 6: Interior Cutaway Continued and Catch up week

Week 7: Keyframe part 1. It’s time to put all of our pieces together and show off the story! Learn how to ideate story moments. Explore storytelling with different camera angles
 
Week 8: Keyframe part 2. Add mood with value
 
Week 9: Final Presentations and guest speaker(s)! We’ll take a look at everyone’s final project and get final crits! Guest speaker(s) for a Q&A and more feedback!