Cartooning school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

Emphasizing the observational skills and attention to detail that help a creator define and individualize cartoon characters and backgrounds, students in this course create appropriate model sheets for character animation and generate storyboards.

This course examines and explores the art of cartooning. Students create and develop their own single- and multipanel comic strips, as well as editorial and political cartoons.

This course focuses on the necessity for sequential artists to be competent writers as well as artists. The course covers all phases of writing for sequential art, including scripting in various styles, constructing plot synopses, submitting proposals to publishers and generating story ideas in various genres of sequential art. The course is designed to give students the writing skills necessary to work professionally in the world of sequential art.

This course is designed to familiarize students with all of the inking tools and techniques employed by professional comic book artist and inkers. Students will gain the ability to work in a wide range of styles and emphasis is placed on developing a personal approach to inking. Both individual and group critiques support the projects.

This course reinforces graduate-level skills in creating visual narrative for students entering the graduate program in sequential art. All sequential art begins with the relationship of the visual image to the narrative. It is essential that students understand and analyze the vital relationship between graphics and text as they relate to the visual narrative. Page layout, panel design, and the relationship of images combined with the written word are among the disciplines covered in the class....

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