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How to create storyboards if you can't draw

How to create storyboards if you can't draw

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How to create storyboards if you can't draw

- Do you have to know how to draw to create storyboards? Well, yes, if you want to be a professional, but many directors like to sketch out their own storyboards even if they can't draw. So whether you want to create your own storyboards without having artistic talent, or you want to have a fast way to communicate your ideas to a seasoned storyboard artist, here's some suggestions. So this first image you see here, the top line of images are really terrible drawings. And those were done by a director I was working with on a TV show way back in the '90s. But they were good enough, once I asked a few questions, where I was able to draw the images that you see below. So even bad drawings worked. One of the best ways to communicate what you want from people doesn't take any drawing at all. It's a shot list. And a shot list is simply a bullet point of every shot that you want with a brief description of it. As you can see here,…

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