Skip to Main Content
Animation Writing and Development
book

Animation Writing and Development

by Jean Ann Wright
July 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
360 pages
9h 41m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Animation Writing and Development

Chapter 16

The Animated Feature

Concerns in Greenlighting an Animated Feature

A major animation feature is very expensive to make, and studios are reluctant to take too many risks when they’ve got millions of dollars at stake. Many studios purchase the rights to a book or well-known character for their feature rather than buy an original spec animation script. Or they retell a classic myth, fairy tale, or story that’s in the public domain. Some films, like The Wild Thornberrys and The Powerpuff Girls, were popular TV series before they expanded to the big screen. These stories with marquee value practically guarantee a built-in audience. Often studios commission a script for their feature based on a subject that they think will sell a lot of ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Animation

Animation

Andrew Selby
How to Make Animated Films

How to Make Animated Films

Tony White, Kathryn Spencer

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780240805498