“Teaching and Creating Animatics” by Keeshen

This hands-on workshop guides educators and students through the process of setting up an animatic and teaches them how to create a short story using traditional and computer-aided methods. The presentation includes:

• Story – how to structure around a given theme or music.
• Storyboarding – written as well as drawn visualization.
• Key framing – posing out the characters and scenes.
• Timing – guessing at what it should be (theory vs actual).
• Premeire – using the software to marry the visuals with sound; putting
“theory vs actual” to work.
• Scheduling – how do you estimate the time it takes to do the work?
• Budgeting – if this were a real job what would it cost?
• The business – how students should think about marketing themselves.

The workshop also teaches the teachers what they need to set up a similar situation for their own teaching purposes. It includes samples of completed works and works in progress, to illustrate the process more completely.