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Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animation Features and Shorts
by Nancy Beiman
March 2007
Beginner
336 pages
8h 46m
English
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Contents
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 to animation. If you haven’t got a life, why not create one?
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.
Why caricature is better than literal interpretations of anything.
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