You want the notes to be clear and concise.ĭo you need to add any camera moves? Or remove some? Reread your notes and correct, add or delete anything unnecessary. This is an important step in the storyboarding process, one that will refine your storyboard significantly.ĭoes each panel's drawing clearly illustrate the action, movement and direction?

Now that your scene is complete, it's time to go back and review it for completeness.

Continue sketching and writing notes until your scene is complete.

Sketch the second shot in the scene and add notes.

Be concise in your notes, but be sure to include the most pertinent details. Then add your notes including any dialogue.

For the first shot in the scene, start sketching the action that will occur.

With a pencil and the blank template, write down the title of your storyboard, author's name (you) and the date.

If so, simply choose the scene that you have most fully developed at this point. It's always best to start from the beginning, but sometimes, that's not always the case.

Choose the scene you will use to start your storyboard.

Open the blank storyboard template, and print or photocopy as many copies as needed to draw your storyboard.

If anyone has ANY questions please feel free to ask and I will try to help out. I may make more tutorials for toon boom in the future. Anyone with any of the three tiers of Toon Boom can follow along with this tutorial to understand the basics of this program. I personally struggled to find support for Toon Boom Essentials, as near all tutorials that exist are for Premium, or are just confusing and don't get to the meat of what I want. Toon Boom is definitely not very beginner friendly right off the bat.

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