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Write Your Way into Animation and Games
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Write Your Way into Animation and Games

by Christy Marx
November 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
418 pages
12h 28m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 2 The Basics

 

 

Christy Marx

 

This section covers the fundamentals of how animation is created; the format of a premise, an outline, and an animation script for television; and information about feature-film animation writing. After that, we get into “Beyond the Basics,” where I give additional tips, tricks, and advice.

 

THE ANIMATION PROCESS

Many books have been written that cover the animation process from beginning to end. Unless you work up to a position of producer, most of these steps don’t have much effect on writing the script. To be thorough, here is a brief description of the process by which animation is created for television:

  • DEVELOPMENT: The concept is born, whether it’s an idea pitched by someone from the inside, developed ...
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ISBN: 9780240813431