
Learn the complete process for building effective paintings to help sell any story. From thumbnails and color …
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Learn the complete process for building effective paintings to help sell any story. From thumbnails and color compositions, through final polishing techniques, Sam provides a clear understanding of all the necessary steps to create bold imagery for entertainment, otherwise known as Visual Storytelling. Students will work with their own story ideas as well as a predetermined story, since it will often be crucial to be comfortable with creating visuals for someone else’s story.
BIO: Samuel Michlap began his animation career in 1992 as a layout artist on Walt Disney’s Classic “The Lion King,” and key set designer on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”. Sam was influential at DreamWorks as a Lead Visual Development Artist, Art Director, and ultimately Production Designer. He contributed to “The Prince of Egypt”, “The Road to El Dorado”, “Sinbad”, “Shrek”, “SharkTale”, ”Monsters Vs. Aliens”, “Tusker”, “Madagascar 3″, “Turbo”, “MegaMind” and “The Rise of the Guardians”. Sam has been recently working on the Guardian of the Galaxy feature films for Marvel. He is an accomplished Fine Art Gallery Painter. His clientele includes: Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Sony, BlueSky, IDT, Imagi Studios, Universal, IM Digital, EA Games and Buena Vista Visual. He shows at Howard Mandville Gallery, Trailside Gallery, Ann Hughes Fine Art Gallery and Settler’s West Gallery.

Samuel Michlap
About Instructor
Samuel Michlap began his animation career in 1992 as a layout artist on Walt Disney’s Classic “The Lion King,” and key set designer on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”. Sam was influential at DreamWorks as a Lead Visual Development Artist, Art Director, and ultimately Production Designer. He contributed to “The Prince of Egypt”, “The Road to El Dorado”, “Sinbad”, “Shrek”, “SharkTale”, ”Monsters Vs. Aliens”, “Tusker”, “Madagascar 3″, “Turbo”, “MegaMind” and “The Rise of the Guardians”. Sam has been recently working on the Guardian of the Galaxy feature films for Marvel. He is an accomplished Fine Art Gallery Painter. His clientele includes: Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Sony, BlueSky, IDT, Imagi Studios, Universal, IM Digital, EA Games and Buena Vista Visual. He shows at Howard Mandville Gallery, Trailside Gallery, Ann Hughes Fine Art Gallery and Settler’s West Gallery.
Course Curriculum
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- Visual Storytelling: Movie Moments 1 | Preview FREE 00:05:00
Preview for Visual Storytelling: Movie Moments 1 with Sam Michlap. -
- Visual Storytelling: Movie Moments 1 | Introduction 00:26:00
- Staging 00:24:00
- Abstract Design FREE 00:30:00
- Storytelling MM1: Questions and Homework Assignment 1 00:28:00
- Visual Storytelling MM1: Research 00:24:00
- Storytelling MM1: Getting Started 00:22:00
- Pen Tool Demo 00:24:00
- Storytelling MM1 | Critique 1 00:26:00
- Purpose of the Shot 00:40:00
- Graphic Shapes 00:23:00
- Stretching Value 00:32:00
- Visual Storytelling MM1: Thumbnails 00:27:00
- Visual Storytelling MM1: Homework Assignment 2 00:30:00
- Visual Storytelling MM1: Focus 00:43:00
- Visual Storytelling MM1: Movement 00:39:00
- Abstract Shapes 00:31:00
- Value Register 00:54:00
- Slow is Fast 00:39:00
- Step by Step FREE 00:25:00
- Refining the Idea 00:31:00
- Clarity 00:34:00
- Dominance 00:33:00
- Visualization 00:43:00
- Visual Storytelling MM1: Symbology and Homework 6 00:44:00
- Movie Moments 00:45:00
- Refining Images 00:55:00
- Visual Storytelling MM1: Color 00:53:00
- Pushing the Raw Idea 00:46:00
- Large and Small Frequency 00:28:00