Build your skills toward becoming a manga creator
Students will acquire new knowledge about manga storytelling, they will learn how to analyze manga pages pages and they will receive constant feedback on their storyboards following the Japanese system of work between an editor and a mangaka.
By the end of the course, the students will have worked on: one "clean" storyboard f 8-12 pages, 40 yonkoma sketches, 8 inked yonkoma; students will have deepen their knowledge about how to involve the reader using manga storytelling and learnt the basic functions of Clip Studio (for presenting a storyboard to an editor) too.
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What you'll learn
Students have access to the classroom and can get ready for week one first presentation.
Kishotenketsu | Logline | Character sheet | How different size and shape of panels give different narrative results
Clip: Creating your manga file, digitalizing a draft, basic tools
Analysis of pages: From western comic to "manga language" | Emotional subject
Clip: Types of layers, tones, gradient, gradient map, more tools
Creating rhythm: going faster, going slower | Emotional time, action time, reading time | "Ma" and emotional focus
Clip: exploring toolbars
Basic Komawari | Misegoma | Narrative unit: space/time/emotion
Clip: Layer mask, save your workspace
Flow and Z-rule - actions'direction (speeck bubbles and kakimoji)
Clip: Brushes, Rulers, Transform
Maximum number of panels | Improving our ideas and characters (What if) | Segments of a story that may be a story in themselves.
Balancing Characters, Story, Setting , Themes and Art (Part 1)
Clip: Line Art, tools for crosshatching
Balancing Characters, Story, Setting ,Themes and Art (Part 1)
Clip: Clip Sutio Asset, Materials, 3d approach
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Pricing Schedule
3x Payments
$249.67
2x Payments
$374.50
Full payment
$749
What makes this learning experience unique?
PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK
Receive personalized feedback on all assignments from the industry’s top professionals.
LIFETIME ACCESS
Enjoy lifetime access to the spectrum of course content, including lectures, live Q&As, and feedback sessions.
CERTIFICATION
Show off your Certification of Completion when you turn in 80% of course assignments.
FLEXIBLE LEARNING
Learn anywhere, anytime, and at your own pace with flexible, online course scheduling.
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