Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
bloopanimation.com/making-a-graphic-novel
Next week (Tuesday, May 1st) we are finally releasing our new MASSIVE course about making graphic novels.
The course includes 56 video lessons with 6 hours of content. This is one of the most comprehensive courses on making graphic novels and comic books you can find.
So what's in the course? What's included? How much will it cost? How do I get my launch discount?
Here are all the details.
What will you learn?
Basics
We’ll start by briefly going over the history of comic books, publishing conventions, and learn the basic terminology we’ll be using throughout the course.
Comic Art Styles
After understanding the basics, we’ll go over approaches of different artists to handling individual elements of comic art, such as character, inking, panel layout, lettering and more.
Sequential Art Theory
Before making our own graphic novels, we’ll familiarize ourselves with with the theory behind the craft. Understanding closure & transitions, pacing, rhythm, pairing words and images, composition, clarity, readability, types of shots, and composing pages/spreads.
Pipeline
We’ll examine different ways a production can work, including planning our book with publishing in mind, how to mix traditional and digital media and how to work in a team vs. Solo.
Story
An overview of writing a story with the graphic novel format in mind. Characters, setting, story structure, script writing, and writing with drawing.
Drawing Traditionally / Digitally
Once we’re ready to get dirty, we’ll learn how to actually draw our pages, setting up a page, penciling, inking and coloring it, in both digital and traditional forms.
Publishing
Before wrapping up we’ll talk about getting a publisher, or how to self publish the book yourself. We’ll cover printing options, book design, distribution options and marketing strategy.
How much will it cost?
The course will launch at $97 for the first 3 days, and then the price will go up to $147 and will never drop again. You know the drill.
It will also be available as part of our Ultimate Package, which includes our entire course library, so if you already purchased that package you will get access to the course on launch day.
Don't miss this one!
After taking this course you will have complete understanding of the entire process of creating a graphic novel from start to finish, and will be able to take the next steps to making your book a reality.
If you have any more questions about this course, please reply to this email and ask away!
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Video tutorials, awesome articles/interviews and guides, how to make an animated movie (a complete step by step series), books, courses, short films and more.
bloopanimation.com/making-a-graphic-novel
Next week (Tuesday, May 1st) we are finally releasing our new MASSIVE course about making graphic novels.
The course includes 56 video lessons with 6 hours of content. This is one of the most comprehensive courses on making graphic novels and comic books you can find.
So what's in the course? What's included? How much will it cost? How do I get my launch discount?
Here are all the details.
What will you learn?
Basics
We’ll start by briefly going over the history of comic books, publishing conventions, and learn the basic terminology we’ll be using throughout the course.
Comic Art Styles
After understanding the basics, we’ll go over approaches of different artists to handling individual elements of comic art, such as character, inking, panel layout, lettering and more.
Sequential Art Theory
Before making our own graphic novels, we’ll familiarize ourselves with with the theory behind the craft. Understanding closure & transitions, pacing, rhythm, pairing words and images, composition, clarity, readability, types of shots, and composing pages/spreads.
Pipeline
We’ll examine different ways a production can work, including planning our book with publishing in mind, how to mix traditional and digital media and how to work in a team vs. Solo.
Story
An overview of writing a story with the graphic novel format in mind. Characters, setting, story structure, script writing, and writing with drawing.
Drawing Traditionally / Digitally
Once we’re ready to get dirty, we’ll learn how to actually draw our pages, setting up a page, penciling, inking and coloring it, in both digital and traditional forms.
Publishing
Before wrapping up we’ll talk about getting a publisher, or how to self publish the book yourself. We’ll cover printing options, book design, distribution options and marketing strategy.
How much will it cost?
The course will launch at $97 for the first 3 days, and then the price will go up to $147 and will never drop again. You know the drill.
It will also be available as part of our Ultimate Package, which includes our entire course library, so if you already purchased that package you will get access to the course on launch day.
Don't miss this one!
After taking this course you will have complete understanding of the entire process of creating a graphic novel from start to finish, and will be able to take the next steps to making your book a reality.
If you have any more questions about this course, please reply to this email and ask away!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Website:
bloopanimation.com
Subscribe to stay updated:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bloopanimation
Facebook:
facebook.com/bloopanimation
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The Key Frame brings you the latest news from the animation and VFX industry.
Bloop Animation is a blog/YouTube channel about animation and filmmaking.
We make:
Video tutorials, awesome articles/interviews and guides, how to make an animated movie (a complete step by step series), books, courses, short films and more.


![[NEW] Stop Motion Animation course
Get the course: https://www.bloopanimation.com/stop-motion-animation/
So what is this course about? Well... its awesome.
It teaches you all the basics of setting up for making stop-motion animation, as well as how to use Dragonframe, the industry standard for stop-motion.
We start by going over the basic principles of stop motion. What youll need to setup a proper stop motion environment, as well as a quick overview of Dragonframe - the industry standard program for stop-motion animation.
After covering the basics of how stop motion works, we go over connecting and setting up a camera, as well as how to light our scene.
Then we show how to build a set for our animation sequence, and construct a clay character from scratch.
When our assets are ready, we get into animating all the shots for our sequence. We cover Dragonframes planning tools, audio tools, onion skinning & toggling, and even lip syncing.
When our animation is ready, we show how to export our images from Dragonframe into an editing program such as Premiere, and learn how to use After Effects for rig removal and working with RAW files.
Website: http://www.bloopanimation.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloopanimation
Bloop Animation is an animation learning platform focused on animation filmmaking.
We make:
Video tutorials, awesome articles/interviews and guides, how to make an animated movie (a complete step by step series), books, courses, short films and more.
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