From the course: Motion Graphic Design: Storyboards and Animatics

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Storyboarding with Illustrator artboards

Storyboarding with Illustrator artboards

From the course: Motion Graphic Design: Storyboards and Animatics

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Storyboarding with Illustrator artboards

- [Instructor] Another way of creating Storyboard frames is to use Illustrator. Now here I am in Illustrator in the New Document dialog, and I'm creating a preset under the film and video presets of HDV 1080. And over here I've named it 03_05_Storyboard, and it's already picked up the preset dimensions of 1920 by 1080, and we've gone for a landscape format. Now over here, you'll see the Artboards. Normally you can just create one Artboard to start with, but what we're gonna do is create sixteen Artboards. So, I'm gonna up this to sixteen, and if we click on Create that's gonna create a new file with sixteen Artboards. Now I'm gonna go up to View, Hide Transparency Grid and that makes it a bit easier to see our Artboards and if I hold down spacebar, I can just move that across. And, you can see all of the Artboards in here. Now we have an Artboards Panel, so if you don't have that opened, you can go to Window, Artboards and here we can see all of our Artboards. Now I can rename these…

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