Storyboarding and Previsualisation (18 weeks)

Take your traditional and digital skills to a more technical level with this Advanced 18 week course!

Our Storyboarding and Previz is a unique course incorporating several important disciplines. Our course teaches both disciplines that use traditional drawing skills (storyboards), or digital skills (previz). Storyboard artists and previz artists must solve many of the same problems, including shot flow, cinematography, narrative rhythm, and continuity.

Module 1 - Storyboarding

Week 1: Storyboarding Basics - Pitch for a Short Film

Brainstorming
Logline
Premise
Outline
Script

Week 2: Story Design

Defining the conflict
Designing Characters with personality
Establishing the story rules
Creating story sequences

Week 3: Storyboarding Basics

Life drawing
Composition Elements
Colour theory
Concept Art
Character and Environment Design

Week 4: Storyboarding Intermediate

Script breakdown
Pacing the action
Thumbnails and tonal sketches
Beat boards
Staging

Week 5: Storyboarding Advanced

Digital storyboarding
Animation principles
Sound Design
Compositing
Animatic

Module 2 - Previsualisation

Week 6: Previz basics - Storyboarding for Interactive project

Art Direction and storytelling
Period styles, Fashion and Costume
Digital painting
Colour scripts
Lighting for atmosphere and mood
Cinematography techniques

Week 7: Previz basics

3D Concepts
Pipeline
Modelling
Assets and World Building

Week 8: Previz Intermediary

UVMapping
Textures
Materials

Week 9: Previz Intermediary

Rigging
Animation
Cameras

Week 10: Previz Intermediary

Lighting
Staging a shot
Rendering
Compositing
Editing

Week 11 & 12: Group Project- Directing a Story, Pitch for TV series

Preproduction

Week 13:

Production

Week 14:

Postproduction
Pitch

Week 15 & 16 : Individual Project- Producing Pitch for a Feature Film Project

Screenplay writing
Scheduling
Preproduction

Week 17:

Cinematography
Animation
TD
Rendering

Week18:

Postproduction
Pitch
Demo-reel

Software

Entry requirements

We welcome and encourage applications from students with a variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

To study this short course, you must:

Be over 18
Have a good understanding of written and spoken English
Feel comfortable using a computer

Contact our Admissions team on admission@escapestudios.com for any questions regarding international applications and visas.

How to apply

To apply, or if you have any questions about your application or our entry requirements, you can:

Call our Admissions Advisors on +44 (0)203 441 1303
Email us at admissions@escapestudios.com
Reach us on LiveChat on Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Following your application, you will need to agree to our terms and conditions before your place on the course can be secured.

Where will this get me?

All students on any 3D for VFX (18 weeks) course will graduate with an Escape Studios Certificate of Achievement, a well-respected qualification within the industry, demonstrating you've studied an industry-based course and have the practical, hands-on skills studios are looking for. After the classroom course is over we offer three months of online mentoring, so that our students can continue to refine and polish their skills. We take aftercare very seriously - since it can take time to put together a job-ready demo reel, we make sure our students get the time and practice that they need to refine their work to make them job-ready. Learn more about our AfterCare package.

As you develop more experience and your skills develop further, the pool of roles you will be suitable for will grow. Download our Careers Guide.

Fees and funding

Fees

£12,760

Payment plans

We offer a range of payment plan options for all courses, including up to five instalments following the initial deposit. Depending on the length of the course, we ask that the initial deposit be paid when registering for the course, and the final payment prior to the end date of the course.

Following the deposit, your chosen payment plan will break down your remaining instalments equally. Please speak to a member of our Admissions team on +44 (0)203 441 1303 or admissions@escapestudios.com to determine the dates of those payments.

Contact our Finance team to discuss your options on +44 (0)203 441 1303 or finance@escapestudios.com.

Funding for international students

We recommend you visit the UK Council for International Student Affairs website. The Council doesn’t provide funding directly, but it will give you all the information you need about studying and living in the UK, including visas and funding.

We do our best to find funding solutions for overseas students. For example:

If you’re from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Burma, you may be able to get funding from the Charles Wallace Trust, to help towards your living costs and educational development in the UK. Find out more at wallace-trusts.org.uk.

Get in touch

We can help with any problems or questions you have with course fees and funding. Speak to one of our Applicant Advisors via phone or email today! Call us on +44 (0)203 441 1303 or email admissions@escapestudios.com.

Next steps

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Meet our team, hear about our postgraduate and short courses and get all your burning questions answered.

**Book now for Saturday 22nd October at 12pm**

3D animation Paddington bear floating — Taster sessions

Get a hands-on feel for what it's like to study with us by joining one of our online or on-campus practical sessions.

**Sign me up**

Family portrait of the Addams Family from 3D animated film — Meet the team

Book a one-to-one on the phone or on campus if you want to know more about our courses.

**Get in touch**

Meet our tutors

Iliana is our Storyboarding and Previsualisation tutor and also the Art Director at Mediaframe Ltd. With over 30 years in the animation industry, she has worked on various TV shows including Hungarian Folk Tales (1992-1996), Carland Cross (1996), and some feature film projects including A Monkey’s Tale (1999) and The Princess and the Pea (2002).

Iliana has a BA in Animation from Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts and an MPhil in Arts and Media from University for the Creative Arts.

Industry Partners

Industry partners and advisors influence everything we do, from the curriculum we teach and how it's delivered to our webinars and events.

We work alongside an impressive list of VFX, Games and Animation studios including Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Blue Zoo, MPC, Jellyfish Pictures, PlayStation London Studio and Creative Assembly and many more across all our courses at Escape Studios.

With exclusive professional feedback, intensive software training and much more, our industry-led courses give you up-to-the-minute, inspirational knowledge and experience, tailored to the work you’re passionate about. Our Escape Studios alumni (Escapees) can be found working at a variety of studios including Pixar, MPC, Industrial Light & Magic, DNEG, Rockstar Games and Electric Theatre Collective.

Find out more about our industry partners.

Why Escape Studios?

Learn industry-relevant techniques from the experts, in a studio-like environment.

Studio-experienced tutors. Our tutors have worked at studios including DNEG, Walt Disney Animation, EA, Rebellion and Framestore and their credits include Captain America, Black Mirror and Bond: Spectre. They speak at international conferences, like B’Ars (Spain) and VIEW Conference (Italy), write for industry-recognised blog Befores&Afters, and are authorised trainers for software like UnrealEngine, Autodesk or Houdini.
Industry-standard facilities. Our central London campus is surrounded by world-leading studios and fully equipped with high-end hardware and the latest software.
Industry partners. Our studio partners, including DNEG, Framestore and PlayStation London Studio, help design and develop our courses to make sure that what we teach is relevant to the current industry practices. You’ll also have access to events and webinars ran by our Student Experience team with industry speakers.

Storyboarding and Previsualisation (18 weeks)

See also

Module 1 - Storyboarding

Module 2 - Previsualisation

Fees

Payment plans

Funding for international students

Get in touch

Next steps

Open Events

Taster sessions

Meet the team

Meet our tutors

Industry Partners

Why Escape Studios?

Escape Studios prospectus

Contact us

Study with us

Stay in touch

Legal

Storyboarding and Previsualisation (18 weeks)

See also

Next steps

Open Events

Taster sessions

Meet the team

Meet our tutors

Industry Partners

Why Escape Studios?

Escape Studios prospectus

Escape Studios Socials

Contact us

Study with us

Stay in touch

Legal