This feature animation storyboard course will focus on reinforcing basic storyboarding principles while tackling more complex topics such as action, drama, story structure, pacing, rhythm, and choreography. Students will gain in-depth understandings of storyboarding at a professional level, with a goal of leaving the semester with 1 or 2 competitive portfolio pieces.
You will receive all the class-related emails for this course about a week before the first day of class.
- CLASS #: 118
- TIME: Wednesdays, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM (PDT)
- START DATE: Oct 8th, 2025
- DURATION: 10 Weeks*
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE:
- Intro to Perspective
- Dynamic Sketching
- Analytical Figure Drawing
- Sketching for Environment
- Costume Gesture Drawing
- Intro to Storyboard
MATERIALS:
- Computer/Laptop
- Wacom
- Storyboard Pro or Photoshop
- If you use another image editing tool, you must be able to submit your homework as a single-panel PDF. Demos will be done in Storyboard Pro.
CLASS SYLLABUS: Click here
INSTRUCTOR: Trey Buongiorno
Trey Buongiorno is a Feature Animation Story Artist, TV Animation Episode Director, and a Wecomic Artist on the side. His past projects include "The Adventures of Puss in Boots", "Big Hero 6: The Series", "Chibi TIny Tales", "Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur", "Kung Panda 4", "Bad Guys 2". Trey is currently working on an announced DreamWorks feature film.
TIME ZONE: All CDA class days/times listed above are based on the Los Angeles PST/PDT time zone.
REFUND POLICY: For details about our class refund policy, please visit our "Refund Policy" and "Terms of Service" pages.
*Due to reasons such as instructor sick day, family emergencies, storm, earthquake, fire, flood, or other unforeseen circumstances, Concept Design Academy reserves the right to push any class back 1 week in the schedule if necessary. Students are strongly recommended to plan their schedule with some flexibility in mind to avoid schedule conflicts.
*** Limit one seat purchase for each class per student. Multiple seat purchase of same class will not be honored. ***