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Attention: Cartoonists, Illustrators,
Comic Book Artists, Modelers, Animators
and any other artists who want to
make money and a great living from your talent...

Learn How to Storyboard
from Disney and SpongeBob Storyboard Artist Sherm Cohen

How can you do what you love

and make a great living at the same time?

Be a Storyboard Artist!

Even though jobs are quickly vanishing for traditional animators and newspaper/magazine cartoonists, Storyboard artists are in high demand -- more than ever!

Even the slickest CG-Animated movie uses hand-drawn storyboards. Look at any of the “Art of...” books about Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony and Disney movies and you’ll see that storyboards are still drawn like they’ve always been...

And that just for starters -- As special-effects-driven blockbusters continue to dominate the box-office, storyboard artists are constantly needed to provide the “blueprints” and pre-visualization art those movies require. Action movies, video games, TV series and even commercials are hiring storyboard artists every day.

And You Already Have
Half of What You Need

You already know how to draw, but the specific storytelling strategies, technical requirements and the specific challenges of the storyboarding format remain a mystery.Do you know how to do a hook-up? When to use a truck-out? an x-dissolve, a banana-pan or how to avoid a jump-cut?

I had never even heard of those things when I started -- In these days of tight deadlines and even tighter budgets, on-the-job training doesn’t even exist anymore. When the studios need a storyboard artist, they don’t have the time or resources for training; they want someone that demonstrate today that they’ll hit the ground running and start pumping out killer storyboards from the first day on the job...

...Are You READY To
Grab That Opportunity?

You will be when you discover Sherm Cohen's

It's the real stuff you can't learn from a book!

The Six Essential Steps to take

...BEFORE you start to draw

How To Overcome the Fear of the Blank Page

Quickie Cheats for Upshots and Downshots

The single biggest beginner's mistake

...don't let it happen to you!

Pacing your storytelling for maximum impact

Breakthrough strategies guaranteed
to bust down creative blocks

Pacing your workload to keep
ahead of the Dreaded Deadline Doom

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Screen Direction Made Easy: Save time and headaches with these simple tips

The "Magic" way to avoid and solve
the toughest of staging problems

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...and dozens of practical studio tips
you won't find anywhere else

DVD ONE:

Storyboarding Crash Course

A Quick Overview Designed to
Get You up and Running Right Away

Angles, Staging And Framing
Screen Direction & Continuity
Quick-Start Guide to Camera Moves

DVD TWO:

Angles, Framing
and Screen Direction

Choose the best angle for your shot.
Lots of tips and shortcuts
to make it quick and easy.

The emotional power of angles
The drop-dead easiest solution ever for the dreaded "180-degree rule"

DVD THREE:

Acting and Posing

Make Your Characters Come To Life Using The Line Of Action And Silhouettes

"How Many Poses Do I Draw?"
How Some Simple "Opposition" can make a huge difference in your boards
The Power of Character Interaction

DVD FOUR:

Camera Moves And Transitions

How To Use The Moving Camera
& Transitions to Strengthen Your Story

Cuts, Dissolves, Wipes And Fades...

When To Use Them...And Why

4 Sure-Fire Ways To
Avoid the Nightmare of Jump-Cuts

DVD FIVE:

Special Shots
And Progressions

Discover The Patterns Of Shots And Never Face Artist's Block Again

How to Boost the Emotional Impact
of Your Scenes with Reaction Shots
The Magic of the Cutaway -- (this one can save you a world of headaches)

...And that's just the first half of the course!

Listen to what recent customers have to say...

"Hey Sherm!

Before time slips by I just wanted to thank you for promptly sending out the DVDS! You rock! The examples you show thus far are super clear and easy to understand

Most of my questions have been answered so far and I'm only on Disc 5!!!!
I'm making a 3 minute film on my own and it's been a battle every inch of the way. Your discs have saved me, man. I was moving in slow motion. Thanks again!"

-- Robert Dress
http://robertdress.blogspot.com/

"I learned more in 2 hours than one year in Art School and I still owe them 50,000 dollars.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and please let me know if you would ever do a workshop here in New York in the future!"

Robert Castillo
Storyboard Artist for:
Sopranos - Season 5 and "Precious"
http://robertcastillostoryboards.blogspot.com/

Hi Sherm,

Just wanted to take a minute and say thank you for the great job you did teaching on your DVD set. Excellent resource!

Martin Lauzon
3D team leader - CG supervisor Art Direction at Vision Globale
EFX Supervisor at Omation “The Barnyard”
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491686/

Discs #6 through #10 Take you Step-by-Step
through the Entire Storyboarding Process

DVD SIX:

Before You Start Drawing

Avoid Disastrous Mistakes
By Taking These Essential Steps
Before You Start To Draw

Planning & Time-Saving Strategies
Ensure Your Storyboarding Success
Before You Even Start to Draw

DVD SEVEN:

From Thumbnailing To Roughs

This Is The Stage Where Some Big Factors Come Into Play:

Structure And Pacing
Creating Visual Interest
Using And Reusing Setups
Avoid Visual Distractions

DVD EIGHT:

Cleanup And Perspective Tips

As The Deadline Crunch Approaches,
Use These Proven Shortcuts To Get Your Board Done On Time

Fixing The Worst...First
The Technical Nitty-Gritty
Freehand Perspective Techniques

DVD NINE:

Digital Storyboarding
And Pitching

The Truth About "Going Digital"
And How To Win Over Your Audience

Choose the Right Storyboard Software
Low-Cost Cintiq Alternatives
What Not To Do Before Your Pitch

DVD TEN:

How To Get A Job
And Keep It,Too

Take Control Of Your Career With These Real-world Job-Getting Strategies

Get Around the "Gatekeepers"
Creating a Killer Portfolio
How to Avoid the Pink Slip and
Get on Track for Your Promotion

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That's 13 Hours of real-world practical
nuts-and-bolts storyboard training
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Here's what storyboard artists
are saying about
Sherm's storyboarding DVDs:
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"Where was this when I was at Cal-Arts? Where was it when I started my storyboard career? Great job!"

Joe Banaszkiewicz
Storyboard Artist and Director on Tiny Toons,
Animaniacs, Disney's House of Mouse & more
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051573/

"I've learned some of these storyboard techniques from various directors
over the years only to find out that
they learned them from Sherm Cohen.

This guy really knows his stuff!"

-- Fred Osmond
Storyboard Artist - Penguins of Madagascar
Assistant Director - El Tigre
http://cartoonsandcaricatures.blogspot.com/

Storyboard artist and animator Mike Moloney

"The storyboard principles Sherm taught me landed me my first job; doing boards at Nickelodeon.

You won't find this information
anywhere else"

--Michael Moloney
Storyboard Artist - Making Fiends
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
http://hobofish.blogspot.com/

About Sherm Cohen

After starting out as a comic book artist and magazine gag cartoonist,
Sherm Cohen entered the animation field as a character layout artist
for The Ren & Stimpy Show.

Sherm moved up from Storyboard Revisionist to Storyboard Artist
to Director on Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold. In 1998 he became part of
the founding crew on SpongeBob SquarePants, and worked on the show
for the next seven years as writer, director, storyboard artist and
Storyboard Supervisor. Sherm was also Lead Storyboard Artist and
Character Designer for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Sherm storyboarded at Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bothers
before moving to Walt Disney Studios to write and draw storyboards
for Phineas and Ferb. His most recent work is as Storyboard Supervisor
on Disney's Fish Hooks.

In 2011, Sherm received an Emmy Nomination
for his work on Kick Buttowski at Disney TV Animation

"I've made it through three of your DVDs so far- I watched 10, 1, and 2 (I couldn't help skipping to the end). Really, REALLY great content!Pretty much anything you would want for television storyboarding.

After I watched #1 I was like, "That was great, but how can he expand on this for 8 more DVDs?" and then I watched #2. Wow. So simple, and yet...not. I'm really excited to start putting this info to work.
I like your teaching style!"

Meredith Randazzo
http://www.rocarts.com/portfolio

"Super clear, easy to follow, no-nonsense.
I already got some great nuggets outta it.
Thanks Sherm, you're a champ and a really nice dude. Keep up the great work!"

-Mike Nassar
Animator, Six Point Harness
http://mikenassar.blogspot.com/

Storyboard artist and Owner of HGN Studio Haroldo Neto

Hello Sherm,

I finally had a chance to review and digest all the 10 DVDs and found the contents awesome.

Since I am mostly doing storyboards now they were a great help specially the one on thumbnails. I am doing all my thumbnail roughs now over the script pages and that has proven to be a time saver.

Chapters on screen direction and perspective were great too. Of course I had been exposed to the basics before but overall I found them very informative and loaded with very important tips. I plan to show them to my storyboard crew here too.

HGN Produções

Best wishes,

Haroldo Guimarães Neto
Owner, Director - HGN Produções

"Buy this!"

--Bob Camp

Supervising Director, Storyboard Artist

The Ren and Stimpy Show