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Johan and Norma Klingler
Instructors, The Art Institute of Dallas
"From Storyboard to Production"
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 Johan Klingler has degrees/certificates from CALARTs, The Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Design, Michigan State University and The University of Southern California and has attended 7 additional schools during his career and is always building his knowledge. He is earning a masters at Florida Atlantic University. He began his career as an illustrator progressing to work at DC and Marvel comics as a ghost inker. He became an artist for feature animated films doing character clean-up, animation, layout, storyboarding, concept art and development. He then developed a career as an Art Director and Director over 21 productions. Soon after becoming a live action Film Director. He then worked on video games for Xbox, PS2 and Xbox 360 as an Art Director. Johan has worked for companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, and Kroyer films to name a few on 54 Feature Productions, 269 Commercials and 7 Video Games. Johan has awards in sequential story and storyboarding by Comico, The Disney Higher Education Scholarship, A Creative Excellence award, an Outstanding Concept/Development award, An outstanding CG Cinematography award and the Illustrator’s award of Roxbury. Johan and his wife Norma founded and Directed the School of Media Arts, a magnet program, for a decade in Burbank California to pull gang kids off the street and train them to be artists for film. A student of such mentors as Chuck Jones, Greg Hildebrandt, Joel Zwick and others, Johan Klingler never forgets where he’s gained his experience, having taught for 14 years, he is currently passing his knowledge onto students at The Art Institute of Dallas.
 Norma Klingler is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and began her career in the commercial industry of New York. She became an artist for feature animated films doing character clean-up, animation, storyboarding, concept art and Character Design. She started as a children’s book illustrator and has become a prominent Character Designer and Storyboard Artist. She is earning a masters at Florida Atlantic University. Chuck Jones stated she was his protégé in style of drawing when he gave his talk at The Art Institute of Southern California. She earned an Emmy in most outstanding Storyboarding in the Industry after studying storyboarding from Johan Klingler, her husband. She and her husband founded and Directed the School of Media Arts, a magnet program, for a decade in Burbank California to pull gang kids off the street and train them to be artists for film. Norma has worked for companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, Nickleodeon, Omation, and Kroyer films to name a few. She is currently passing her knowledge onto students at The Art Institute of Dallas. |
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This Workshop will cover the aspect of maintaining truth to composition, story and screen direction from Storyboard to Layout to Screen. We will begin with a review of those things considered most important from a storyboard by using key skills to recognize what should be reflected from the boards. The next step will be to carry the key aspects into the layout or level design. Norma Klingler will discuss what a storyboard artist focus' on from the view point of the board artist. She will go over what the storyboard artist most wants carried on from the boards to the screen. Johan Klingler will discuss what is considered by the layout artist and should be considered by the layout artist as they review the storyboard and begin layout or level blocking. We will then go over what to note when reviewing the animatic so as to take the storyboards to another level in screen direction and film composition. The result is a powerful connecting intellectual weave of composition and screen direction that draws the audience deeper into the story for a full emotional experience.
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