Theater 597V - ST- Visual Storytelling

This course offers an opportunity to visualize a story in your favorite literary format: from music lyrics and poems to plays, novels and other creative fiction or non-fiction. Over the course of the semester, each student will visualize their story of choice through a set of character sketches and a built miniature of the world/environment where the story unfolds. A combination of visualization modes including painting and miniature model building as well as various media from traditional wet painting to the digital format will be covered to allow students to make the best stylistic choices for their story, drawing on research from history, animation and visual art. Students are guided through the process of story analysis, theme development, and research. For advanced scenic and costume designers this is an opportunity to hone skills and techniques in model-building and sketching. Students with a strong interest in stage, film, animation, game design, and graphic novels are all welcome. Some experience in drawing/painting and/or mini-construction/model building are helpful but not required.

Analyze a story as a visual artist
Research:painting, animation, art installation, architecture, illustration
Utilize materials of the craft
Mini environment building
Figure/fabric rendering
Capstone: a presentation of your illustrated story & its world