Furthermore, this workshop will shine some light on what contemporary studios are looking for in a Story Artist.
Participants will be engaged by involving them into the presentation, enabling them to apply newly learnt knowledge and/or share existing experience.

Any beginner with a passion and interest in Visual Storytelling. Educational Institutions and Content Creators.

A basic understanding on the definition and tasks of a Visual Story Artist applied in form of some simple yet effective Visual Storytelling assignments.

This workshop will enable the participants to understand what create good story and how to apply those principles to their own idea.
At the end of the first part of this workshop the participant will be ready to develop the visual aspects of their idea in form of a storyboard / animatic, which will be taught in the second part of the workshop.

1. Story in Animation: Character Driven Storytelling
2. Feature Story vs Animated Short vs Animated Series
3. Commercial Story approach:

• The Idea - How to come up with an idea?
• Story Structure
• The Introduction: Characters and their world
• The Conflict
• The Solution
• Character Arcs & Character Relationships
4. The Artistic approach: I wanna do something expressive, non-commercial.
5. Basic Cinematography
• Shots
• 180 degree rule
• Transitions
• Composition
6. The Synopsis, Outline & Script
7. Dialogue Recording

Any aspiring artist or professional that has an interest to pimp their story knowledge by productions a visual story (animatic) for an animated short. Educational Institutions, Content Creators.

A thorough understanding on how to approach story and how to prepare story for visual development. An outline or script, of an own idea.

Based on the prior efforts in Part 1 of this workshop, we will guide the participants on how to visualize their ideas in forms of thumbnails sketches and then taking it to the next level and develop a draft storyboard all the way to completing an animatic with a scratch track.
This workshop will also highlight how collaborative Visual Story Development is. Feedback is your best friend.

1. Scratch-track and Basic Sound-Editing (Audacity) & Sound / Music Sourcing
2. Advanced Cinematography

• Perspective
• Lighting (Contrast)
• Staging
• Camera Moves
3. Storyboard Tools (Storyboard Pro and Photoshop)
4. Drawing for Storyboards: Developing your own short-hand
5. Thumb-nailing: First visual draft of your script or outline
6. Using references successfully (VizRef)
7. Draft Storyboard (A ready-to-pitch Storyboard)
8. Story Collaboration:
• Pitching
• Critique / Feedback (listen & re-imagine)
• Story-RE-boarding
• Rinse & Repeat
9. Animaticn: Refined Storyboard w Scratch-track
10. Working remotely & On-Site

Any aspiring artist or professional that has an interest to pimp their story knowledge by productions a visual story (animatic) for an animated short. Educational Institutions, Content Creators.

A basic understanding on the definition and tasks of a Visual Story Artist applied in form of some simple yet effective Visual Storytelling assignments.

The content of this sharing session is based on my book with the same working title "Break into a creative job, survive and thrive!" that is currently being developed.
My experience and advice are divided into chapters and each chapter will elaborate on the Good, Bad and Ugly.
Depending on the background of the participants of this sharing session I will either elaborate on the beginnings and the tedious yet rewarding path up the creative career ladder or I will share my views and advice with working professionals that feel jaded and/or stuck, to help them claiming some of their passion back and to unstuck themselves.
During this sharing session I will share share how I made my way into the industry and managed to stay passionate and dedicated throughout the many years despite the rough chapters presenting themselves during my journey.
I share first hand advice on breaking into the industry and how to thrive and  stay relevant while keeping a happy and balanced life. The participants will learn from my mistakes, in hope they can avoid making the same mistakes and benefit from the things that worked really well for me and might work well for them too.
The content of the sharing session and that of my book has been refined in collaboration with Ingmar Hänsch, music producer and therapist in Ibiza, Spain. Ingmar has years and years of experience with individuals that feels challenged by life events. Being a creative himself, he developed great solutions for like-minded people in particular, which encouraged me to bring Ingmar on board as advisor to develop problem solving tools with me that will be particularly elaborated on my book.
The content of this sharing session is applicable to most jobs and ambitions in the creative industry, yet especially those working or intending to work in the animation industry will benefit greatly from this session.

PROLOGUE:
AND INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I:
THE INNER CALLING FOLLOWED BY THE PASSIONATE YEARS OF STRUGGLES & JOY
When the dream becomes a goal and passion and dedication propels you forward, overcoming almost every hurdle on the way.

CHAPTER II:
THE BREAK-THROUGH AND ITS DELIGHTFUL HONEYMOON PERIOD
The Chance to prove yourself: You landed your first gig. Life is great. Most probably the most rewarding chapter of your creative career.

CHAPTER III:
TAKING OFF THE PINK GLASSES: THE PERIOD OF REALIZATION
Living your dream became a sobering reality, politics, repetition and realization set in. You (hopefully) grew as a person and long for a broader spectrum of evolution. How to go on and upwards from here?

INTERMISSION:
CONCLUSIONS
A collection of thoughts and advice based on the creative macro-world and its challenges.

CHAPTER IV:
GRUMPY PEOPLE SYNDROME: THE JADED, MATURE YEARS
The job isn‘t that fun anymore, its a means to make money to pay your bills. Your passion dies off, your anger towards upper management reaches new heights. Suddenly everything feels like a compromise. Lack of sense of reward.

CHAPTER V:
THE NEW YOU - ARRIVAL!
The journey taught you many lessons, with self reflection, maturity and an open mind you can turn things around for yourself and rediscover your passion for the subject matter or discover new passions.

CHAPTER VI:
LIFE INTERVENTION - EMERGENCY PLAN
You are being made redundant or other life changing events throw you off course and you feel overwhelmed by the challenges of getting back on track.

EPILOGUE:
CONCLUSIONS
A collection of thoughts and advice based on the creative macro-world and its challenges.

Any aspiring and professional artist that struggles with themselves, the circumstances, from a creative block and / or sudden absence of passion for the job in this industry. Educational Institutions, Content Creators.

To release creative blocks, self-doubts, help solving struggles as well as succeed overall in a balanced life of any emotional and creative creature working in a fun yet demanding job.

This presentation might be especially helpful for Asian service provider that want to switch to creating their own IP.
This presentation will shed light onto the differences in Character development for animation, its design and appeal and how to make your story to appeal to European investors and audiences.
The presentation will also elaborate on how films are usually funded in Europe and how to potentially tap into the funds by co-producing with local content creators.
Also important is to give a clear understanding on the differences in work culture and pipeline, especially so during co-productions.

CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT!

1. Audience: Relevant Cultural Differences Asia vs West
2. Work-Culture differences Asia vs West
3. Pipeline differences Asia vs West
4. Story Appeal - Captivating the Western Audiences
5. Funding & Marketing in Europe
6. Show formats in Europe

For working professionals, startups and animation studios that intent to upgrade to higher quality productions. Educational Institutions, Content Creators.

A better understanding on how to target European audiences and investors / co-production fundings.

In this Masterclass we will elaborate on the major content-creation and animation production processes. We will make a deep dive how to maximize your efforts in each department and how to push the overall quality outcome.
We will also cover things on how to work productively in this day and age with remote personal and creative individuals.

The Masterclass can be executed remotely but even better to be performed on-site as we can get a first hand impression on how your studio is setup and how you are running your productions. Upon completion of the Masterclass we can extend our services as consultant to help you executing and monitoring your progress based on our suggestions.

This Masterclass will be customized to your needs depending on an evaluation we will have together before we finalize the outline and outcome of the masterclass.

Based on an evaluation prior the masterclass, we can give constructive feedback and guidelines on how to improve the production quality, production methods and the creative content of your productions.