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Staging and Design – Storyboard Commentary Video
By Sherm Cohen
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2010
About this lesson
A Nickelodeon storyboard artist and director talks through staging and composition panel by panel, explaining how to plan drawings that leave room for characters to act and how negative space around a figure keeps its pose and silhouette readable.
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