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This article provides a lesson breakdown of the Toon Boom Intro to Storyboarding with Storyboard Pro courseware.
Duration breakdown
The Storyboard Pro courseware duration is ± 95 hours, distributed as follows:
- Learning: ± 36 hours
- Activities & tasks: ± 59 hours
| NOTE: These hours are general estimates and may differ based on the individual student or the classroom structure. |
Lesson breakdown
The following table shows a description and estimated duration of each individual lesson in the courseware.
| No. | Lesson Name and Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | An Introduction to Storyboards An introduction to the purpose and usefulness of storyboards. | Learning: ± 1 hr |
| 2 | The Animation Pipeline Become familiar with the production workflow and how storyboarding plays a key role in it. | Learning: ± 1 hr |
| 3 | Starting and Planning Your Project Learn how to create a Storyboard Pro project and manage your files. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 4 | Exporting a Storyboard Project Learn how to export your project so you can share your work with others. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 5 | Preferences, Shortcuts and Saving Learn about useful preferences, shortcuts and saving practices. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 6 | Navigating Storyboard Pro Learn how to use Storyboard Pro’s workspace, including its views, toolbars, and interface. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 7 | Sharing and Libraries Learn how to share and reuse any elements you create in Storyboard Pro with the Library view. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 8 | Drawing Tools Learn about Storyboard Pro’s many drawing tools and experiment with bitmap and vector artwork. | Total: ± 4 hrs Learning: ± 2 hrs Activity: ± 2 hrs |
| 9 | Colour When painting drawings and selecting colours, you will use the Colour view. There is an active colour swatch at the top that indicates the current colour. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 10 | Shots 101 An introduction to camera shots, angles, and movements and how to use them in storytelling. | Total: ± 5 hrs Learning: ± 3 hrs Activity: ± 2 hrs |
| 11 | Layers Learn about layers and how to use them to organize artwork. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 12 | Working with Panels Learn about panels, how to create and select them, and how to use them to create a narrative. | Total: ± 3 hrs Learning: ± 1.5 hr Activity: ± 1.5 hr |
| 13 | Scripts, Captions, and Notes Learn about Storyboard Pro’s script import and caption creation features. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1.5 hr Activity: ± 0.5 hr |
| 14 | Drawing Guides Learn about Drawing guides and how they can be used to create layouts and objects with accurate perspective. | Total: ± 3 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 2 hrs |
| 15 | Visual Language Learn about visual language and how it can be used to strengthen elements of storytelling in a storyboard. | Total: ± 5 hrs Learning: ± 2 hrs Activity: ± 3 hrs |
| 16 | Let's Create a Storyboard Use what’s been learned to create a simple storyboard. | Total: ± 8 hrs Learning: ± 0.5 hrs Activity: ± 7.5 hrs |
| 17 | Animating Layers Learn how to apply simple animation to layers to create movement and timing. | Total: ± 5 hrs Learning: ± 2 hrs Activity: ± 3 hrs |
| 18 | Camera Movement Learn how to apply animation to the camera to help guide the story. | Total: ± 5 hrs Learning: ± 2 hrs Activity: ± 3 hrs |
| 19 | Sound Learn how to add sound effects, dialogue and music to a storyboard. | Total: ± 4 hrs Learning: ± 2 hrs Activity: ± 2 hrs |
| 20 | Adding Blur Effects Apply blur effects to artwork to create depth and movement. | Total: ± 2 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 1 hr |
| 21 | Working in 3D Learn to manipulate drawing layers in the 3D space, as well as to integrate 3D models into your storyboard. | Learning: ± 4 hrs |
| 22 | Creating an Animatic Use your skills to create an animatic in Storyboard Pro. | Total: ± 8 hrs Learning: ± 0.5 hrs Activity: ± 7.5 hrs |
| 23 | Storytelling Concepts Learn about story structures as you start to create ideas for your own story. | Total: ± 6 hrs Learning: ± 2 hrs Activity: ± 4 hrs |
| 24 | Pitch your story Create all necessary elements to ‘pitch’ your story using Storyboard Pro to illustrate creative ideas. | Total: ± 14 hrs Learning: ± 1 hr Activity: ± 13 hrs |
| 25 | Storyboard Pro Certification An overview of the Toon Boom Associate Certification with helpful information and resources. | Learning: ± 1 hr |