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Animated Storytelling, 2nd Edition
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Animated Storytelling, 2nd Edition

by Liz Blazer
June 2019
Beginner
225 pages
4h 56m
English
Peachpit Press
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4. Storyboarding

Build your visual script

Image

“At our studio we don’t write our stories, we draw them.”

—Walt Disney

Walt Disney is known for many important innovations in the field of animation and motion graphics. But perhaps his most useful contribution came in the 1930s when he decided to pin up a series of his rough sketches in sequence to help explain a story idea to his team. Like many great innovations, the decision came out of necessity—animation is an expensive and time-consuming process in which a single misstep can be very costly. Being able to solidify story before animating could potentially save a fledgling animation studio like ...

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ISBN: 9780135668023