From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
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What is the rule of thirds? - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
What is the rule of thirds?
- [Instructor] So as we've discussed, comics don't necessarily have to adhere to the same aspect ratio role that film does, 'cause we're not using an actual camera to tell our story, we can spread our wings and get a little weird if we want to. With that being said, we want to stay aware of a certain rule, it's called the rule of thirds and I'm going to tell you what that is. It helps us to create a pleasing composition within whatever frame or panel shape we use. But again, we're going to start with the basic storyboard frame, so let's get that on here. So what the rule of thirds is, is basically breaking up that frame, and again we're talking about a storyboard frame at the moment, into thirds. And wherever you see these intersections, we're going to put a little point, and basically this is where we want our interesting things to be happening. So I'm just going to turn this layer down for a second so that we can work above it, and you can see what I'm doing. So here I'm going to…
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