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Description
Whether you're a novice making your first film or a more advanced animator looking to strengthen an existing concept, Animating Short Stories provides practical techniques to bring your story to life. Each technique is clearly and beautifully illustrated covering different animation mediums; including 2D, 3D and stop-motion.
It takes readers step by step through:
- how to develop story ideas
- to prepare for creative obstacles
- scriptwriting and storyboarding
- each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from award-winning student films as well as commercial examples from big studios
In addition, a companion website includes a specially created short film demonstrating key visual storytelling and narrative techniques alongside the student movies featured throughout. Also included are documents pertaining to sample production schedule and shotlists, screenplay templates, style guides and cheat sheets.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Narrative Short
2. The Story Idea
3. Creative Obstacles
4. Development of an Idea
5. Scriptwriting
6. Cinematographic Visual Techniques
7. Art Direction, Storyboarding, and Screen Design
8. Animatics and Editing
9. Getting Feedback, Making Revisions, and Production Planning
10. The Making of an Animated Short Film: Dreamweaver
Further Watching
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 14 Nov 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350103924 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 296 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 210 x 270 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Richly illustrated with examples throughout, Briggs explores the process of animating short stories from the conception of the initial idea, through the challenges of story development, before ending with insights galore drawn from her own experiences of short-form animation production. Offering a delightful mix of practical examples and useful theory, Animating Short Stories will surely become a valuable reference for aspiring storytellers the world over.
Chris Pallant, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
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Excellent book that highlights all the production process for animation. Very relevant.
Kelvin Wong, Lecturer in Animation, Birmingham City University, UK
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The book will provide a useful resource for students wanting to understand the basics of effective storytelling through the medium of animation at an introductory level. The book features some lovely illustrations and the writing is very accessible in its structure and style.
Mandy Langton, Lecturer in Film Production, University of Central Lancashire, UK
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