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SAF | SECTION 1: Character & Comedy 

Saturdays @10a PST | SPRING '26

 

This covers Weeks 0-5 of Story Artist Foundations, including access to the community campus, a dedicated class channel, and six weeks of LIVE classes where you and the class will pitch your assignments each week, the same way we do in a story room. This is where you'll get feedback on your progress, ask questions, discuss story topics, and overall experience working on a feature film style story team. As a pitch-centric class, this is the ideal way to experience the course.

Enrolling in this course you get:

  • STORY ARTIST FOUNDATIONS: Section 1 "Character & Comedy"
    • Weeks 0-5
  • COMMUNITY CAMPUS
    • Exclusive "SPRING '26" Channel
  • LIVE, Weekly classes.
    • Pitching your sequences.
    • Giving/getting feedback as part of a professional story team.
    • Q&A on each weeks lecture topics.

 

Before the stories, characters, and worldbuilding narratives of feature animated films become household names across the globe, who creates those? Where do they come from? What's the difference between that and the stories you make yourself?!

I wondered the same things before making a story career of doing it the past couple decades in key creative and leadership roles on projects from KPOP Demon Hunters to Kung-Fu Panda, and everything in-between. Now, I want to show you how too, through my course "Story Artist Foundations".

This first section of the course focuses on Character & Comedy. The ability to create authentic characters who can not only sustain disbelief in an audience, but entertain them in memorable ways that make them want to come back again and again is a major pillar of how we tell stories. Knowing how comedy is then applied to the tenets of good storytelling is the other baseline skill we cover in this course - all of it as a foundation to continue building on.

Every section of the course is designed around you creating, writing, storyboarding, and finally pitching a tentpole sequence encompassing everything covered, all to ensure you're learning by doing, and gaining the foundational range needed of a professional story artist.

Enrolling also gets you access to the Story Arts Academy "Community Campus", a private social site where you can share work and feedback with other class peers as you study. 

Whether you're an aspiring story artist, or any kind of storyteller looking to build out their cinematic storytelling skills, this course is like nothing else you'll find out there. This comprehensive course was built from 25 years of direct experience doing it all in story departments across the industry (Sony, Pixar, Illumination, Disney, Dreamworks, and more).