PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS

Are you interested in having your storyboarding knowledge being turned upside down?

We’re going to study storyboarding, boosting your thinking process with outside the box exercises in a real working environment, our office, where you’ll find a professional workspace to piece it all together, all yours for 2 days!

This is why we’re doing this: talking with students and junior storyboarders we’ve noticed they don’t feel 100% ready for real world productions but what they don’t know is that they are almost there, and the little missing piece is .. the way they think (or don’t think enough), while storyboarding!

Technical aspects can be mastered over time with practice and dedication, and this is already a steep staircase in one’s career. But solely technique is not enough to become professional storytellers. It’s the way we process scripts, the way we approach problem solving, rewriting, collaborating with a team, getting reviews without taking it personally, proposing ideas, being a nice person to work with, trusting your supervisor and interpreting a story so it’s real, meaningful, powerful, THIS, in our opinion, is the most difficult task of all.

How do you piece it all together and become the best story artist, and maybe person, you can? How can you avoid losing track of the way ahead of you and stop prematurely, thinking you’ve reached your peak, without even noticing it’s way too early? Schools rarely teach you this, and we’ve been thinking about these aspects a lot, so we’d like to try, if someone is willing to listen, to help reshape our vision and elevate the quality of what we collectively do in storyboarding

We’re putting together 6 weekends workshops, one every two months till the end of the year, with the aim of helping out those of you who have already learned the basics of storyboarding but did not have the opportunity yet to test their skills in a real working environment, to do so, with our supervision.

Each module will last 2 days with a brief theory introduction and then straight to practice for 6 hours on Saturday (full day) and 3 hours on Sunday morning to wrap it up + 2 hours Sunday afternoon for exports and final thoughts.

Our workstations are provided with Wacom cintiq 22 or Huion 22, high performance pc and toon boom storyboard 22 licences.

DATES

• WORKSHOP #1 February 2024
• WORKSHOP #2 April 2024
• WORKSHOP #3 June 2024
• WORKSHOP #4 August 2024
• WORKSHOP #5 October 2024
• WORKSHOP #6 December 2024

PRICES

• 1 workshop – 360 euro
• 2 workshop (bundle) – 700 euro
• 3 workshop (bundle) – 1000 euro
• 6 workshop (bundle) – 1800 euro

The seats are limited to 8 per workshop, if you’re willing to reserve a seat you can do it here, just by indicating your name and email. Once the lesson plan is going to be available for purchase, you’ll be notified and be amongst the first ones to have access to it. You can sign up for one workshop or more, without limitation, just bear in mind that workshop n° 6 needs for you to fully appreciate it to have followed workshop n° 5 too.

VERY IMPORTANT

In order for this workshops to be fully beneficial, the participants would need to have knowledge of the basics of storyboarding (you can find plenty of great lessons online!) and being able to use the software Toon Boom Storyboard.

The workshops will be only in-house, we’re located in Sarzana, Liguria, Italy

Ready to re-think your storyboarding process? RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

Let the adventure begins 💪✨⭐️

Your Bards

Alex & Cris

CRISTINA MENGHI

Cristina has 9 years of experience worldwide as storyboard artist, she worked on All hail King Julien (Dreamworks-Bardel), Klaus (Spa studio – Netflix), He-Man (House of Cool-Mattel), Transformers Cyberverse (Boulder media-Hasbro), Vampirina and Eureka (Disney Jr-Brown Bag Films), and many more until recently with great excitement she collaborated on Devil May Cry (Studio Mir).

ALESSIO MENGHI

Alessio has 8 years of experience on a wide range of major TV series, like Batwheels (Warner Bros-SuperProd), the Creature Cases (Netflix – TeamTO and Silvergate Media), Peppa Pig (EOne – Karrot), the ANGRY BIRDS Slingshot Stories series (Rovio), Elmo and Tango’s Mysterious Mysteries! (Sesame Street – A Production ltd), Bossy Bear (Nickelodeon – Renegade animation) and many others.