
Storyboarding for Animators: How to Plan Your Shots Like a Director
Free Live Workshop
Great animation starts with great planning.
Join Eisner and Annie Award-winning cartoonist Mike Kunkel for this free online workshop to learn how you can use storyboarding to plan your shots like a director.
Mike will share his top tips and tricks and also take your questions.
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Date: Friday, April 25th
Time: 10a PT / 1p ET / 5p GMT
Platform: Zoom Webinar
About the Speaker

Mike Kunkel
Mike Kunkel’s experience comes from numerous TV and film projects as a director, story and development artist, character designer, screenwriter, and animator. Mike has worked for studios such as Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Sony Pictures Animation, Universal Pictures and Walt Disney Animation Studios.
As a published writer and artist, Mike has been nominated three times for the prestigious Eisner Award and four times for the Ignatz award; he’s the creator of the two-time Eisner Award-winning comic book series Herobear and the Kid. As a designer for TV, he won the Annie Award for Best Character Design in an Animated Television Production. He developed and teaches the Storyboarding Workshops at Animation Mentor.
You can see some of Mike’s work and credits here.
Animation Mentor Past Workshops
Watch replays of our recently recorded workshops:
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- Unreal Engine for Animators with Blizzard Senior Animator Olivier Zurcher
- Cameras and Cinematography for Animators with Disney Animation Supervisor Ere Santos
- Animating Subtle Performances with DreamWorks Animator Drew Adams
- Autodesk Maya for Beginners with id Software Senior Animator Paul Allen
- Getting Started as a Game Animator with Call of Duty Animator Luke Madden
- Animating Natural Walk Cycles with Director Don Kim
- Workflows and Advice for Careers in Previs Animation with Nicole Herr
- How a Pixar Animator Uses 2D Animation with Youri Dekker
- Animating Facial Expressions with Disney Animator Brendan Gottlieb
- Mastering Lip Sync in Animation with Disney Animator Ere Santos