Prepare to board! : creating story and characters for animated features and shorts / Nancy Beiman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beiman, Nancy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animation (Cinematography).

Animated films--Authorship.

Animated films.

Cartoon characters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, this book explains the methods and techniques of animation preproduction with a focus on story development and character design.Story is the most important part of an animated film-and this book delivers clear direction on how animators can create characters and stories that have originality and appeal. Learn how the animation storyboard differs from live action boards and how characters must be developed simultaneously with the story. Positive and negative examples of storyboard a

Contents:

Front Cover; Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Dedication and Thanks; Part One: Getting Started; 1. First, Catch Your Rabbit: Working From News Items; Interpreting reality. Creating extraordinary stories from ordinary materials.; Linear and Nonlinear Storytelling: An explanation of two types of storytelling.; Setting Limitations and Finding Liberation: Your personal experiences can be adapted toanimation. If you haven't got a life, why not createone?

Shopping for Story: Creating Lists: Use free association to create story ideas.Nothing Is Normal: Researching Action; All Thumbs: Quick Sketch and Thumbnails: What a character designer should know.; Reality Is Overrated: Why caricature is better than literal interpretations of anything.; Past and Present: Researching Settings and Costumes; 2.Vive la Difference! Animation and Live-action Storyboards; Comic Boards and Animation Boards: Comic strips also use storyboards, but they are dramatically different from animation boards.

Television Boards and Feature Boards: Television series boards differ from those for short and feature film boards. Why you should know this before you start your own project.3.Putting Yourself Into Your Work; The Use of Symbolic Animals and Objects: Allegorical and cultural figures that carry meaning to your viewers. A short list for all you clever foxes.; The Newsman's Guide: Who, What, When, Where, and Why: A series of exercises in character design.; 4.Situation and Character-driven Stories

Stop if You've Heard This One: Clichés and how to avoid them or turn them on their heads. It's not what you do, but how you do it.Defining Conflict: You gotta do what you gotta do.; Log Lines: Summarize the story line before you start.; Stealing the Show: Tell your story with the most interesting characters. Avoid letting secondary characters and storylines become more interesting than your main story.; Parodies and Pastiches: Parody satirizes a specific target, pastiche can reinvent an entire genre.; 5.What If? Contrasting the Possible and the Fanciful

Beginning at the Ending: The Tex Avery "Twist" : Get your ending first, then work on the start.Establishing Rules: Your animated universe may not obey the laws of the 'real world,' but it has to obey its own internal laws.; 6.Appealing or Appalling? Beginning Character Design; Reading the Design: Silhouette Value: Create a good, simple, recognizable shape for each character that will render it instantly recognizable in a 'lineup.; Construction Sights: Building a character.

Foundation Shapes and Their Meaning: How to design complex characters from simple shapes that you probably have lying around the house.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-14262-2

1-282-70035-9

0-08-051467-7

9780080514673

OCLC:

642661704