This course covers principles of character design and development for visual storytelling including Exaggeration, Stereotyping and breaking streotypes, Animal Attributes, Facial Expressions and Gender; Principles of Animation for Visual Storytelling such as Staging, Anticipation, Follow Through, Curves or Line of Motion, Line of Action. Project Types will include Posters, One Panel Cartoons, Multi-Panel Cartoons, Comics, Storyboards, Animatics and Story Reels. The course also covers Shots such as Line of Interest, Apex, interior and exterior shots, Randomly ordered Shots, Changing shot order. We will also discuss Secondary Elements such as Lighting, Camera Position, Props and Background Elements. The course will cover Master Plots including Quest, Adventure, Pursuit, Rescue, Escape, Revenge, Underdog, Riddle, Rivalry, Temptation, Metamorphosis, Transformation, Maturation, Love, Forbidden Love, Sacrifice, Discovery, Wretched Excess, Ascension and Descension. We will also analyze Main-Genres such as Horror, Western, Science Fiction, War, Epic/Historical, Crime / Gangster, Comedy, Adventure, Action, Drama, Musicals and Sub-Genres such as Biopics, Detective/Mystery, Disaster, Fantasy, Film Noir, Guy and Girl, Melodramas, Road, Romance, Sports, Supernatural, Thriller/Suspense.