Ideas for the Animated Short Finding and Building Stories

Name: Ideas for the Animated Short Finding and Building Stories
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ISBN: 9780240808604

ISBN-10: 0240808606

ISBN-13: 9780240808604

Edition: 2007

Authors: Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer, Kate Alexander

List price: $29.95

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Build your skills in the development of story ideas that will command an audience for your 2-5 minute animated short. Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form. The companion DVD includes in-depth interviews with industry insiders, 18 short animations (many with accompanying animatics, character designs and environment designs) and an acting workshop to get your animated short off to a flying start! With Ideas for the Animated Short you'll learn about: Story Background and Theory * Building Better Content * Acting:…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 2/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 9.50" wide x 7.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Karen Sullivan is the Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Culture and Literature at Bard College. She is the author of The Interrogation of Joan of Arc and of Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature, the winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies.



Foreword



Preface



Acknowledgments


The Purpose of Storytelling: Analyzing Dag and the Dinosaur



Story Background and Theory


The Ideas behind Gopher Broke: An Interview with Jeff Fowler, Blur Studios



Building Better Content


Making the Animated Short: An Interview with Andrew Jimenez, Pixar Animation Studios



Acting: Exploring the Human Condition Kate Alexander


Visual Design: Interviews with Kendal Cronkhite and Kathy Altieri, Dream Works Feature Animation



Building Character and Location


Personality, Goals, Shapes, and Variance in Character Design: Tom Bancroft, Funnypages Productions, LLC



Building Story


Story and Humor: An Interview with Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier, Blue Sky Animation Studios



The Purpose of Dialogue


Pitching Stories: Sande Scoredos, Sony Pictures Imageworks



Storyboarding Gary Schumer


Storyboarding: An Interview with Nathan Greno, Walt Disney Feature Animation



Staging Gary Schumer



What's on the DVD


Glossary


Index