Drawing for Animation Storyboards - Fantasy Project in Photoshop

This course demonstrates a Photoshop workflow for organizing and refining a fantasy animation storyboard, from rough character costuming and perspective-based line work to color, texture, shadows, and lighting. It also covers selected Photoshop tools, Wacom tablet use, and 3D references for 2D illustration.

Syllabus

Start
Intro to Sam’s work
Animatic w/ Sam’s work
Storyboard overview
Artboard tool
Resolution size
Rough costuming of characters
Working with a Wacom Intuos
Learning 3D for 2D illustration
Discover panel
Flipping the canvas tip
Continuing to refine the line work - perspective tips
Using the warp tool for adjustments
Discussing character concepts for Kobolds
Making a adjustments using hotkeys
Sam’s self discovery and his art journey
Sam’s painting process - blocking
Adding values for the background
Applying color to the characters - process explanation
Adding texture and shadows
Using Color Dodge to paint in light
Layer usage and clean-up stages
Ambient Occlusion process - rim light process
Recap of today’s work