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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition
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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition

by Susannah Shaw
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
6h 34m
English
Routledge
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4 Keep it Simple

Developing Your Story

DOI: 10.1201/9781315771366-4

It’s normal for people to want to make something elaborate. I’d say—keep it really simple. Work within the resources you have and keep things as simple and intimate as possible—concentrate on giving a performance. Begin by giving an inanimate object some character. Even if it’s only a 10-second piece that expresses a simple idea, it’s going to mean so much more than if you say: “I’ve got this amazing storyboard” or “I started making this model but …”—where’s the film?

Jeff Newitt

Idea–script–treatment

It’s much easier to keep it simple when you have a really good idea. Sometimes the idea is great, but you can’t think of the best way of expressing it. There are many different ...

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