Chapter 2
Story Story Story
Objectives in This Chapter
• Determining what makes an engaging story.
• Writing it down.
• Evaluating your story scope, your resources, and reality.
• Answering the question, how long is my story?
If you don’t have a good story, you will not have a successful short animation.
Of course, “good” could mean a lot of things. In the context of animation production, it means, specifically, both “engaging” and “producible.”
It’s not a shocker to hear that a story must be engaging, but the need is magnified when you are dealing with the limited run length of a short project. With only a couple of minutes of the viewers’ attention available, you have to grab them right away, make your point quickly, and ...
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