Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories

by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer

Overview

Follow from start to finish the creation of an animated short from the pre-production thought process to story development and character design. Explore the best practices and avoid the common pitfalls of creating two to five minute shorts. Watch a specially created animated short, demonstrating the core techniques and principles at the companion website! Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form. The companion website includes in-depth interviews with industry insiders, 18 short animations (many with accompanying animatics, character designs and environment designs) and an acting workshop to get your animated short off to a flying start! With all NEW content on script writing, acting, sound design and visual storytelling as well as stereoscopic 3D storytelling, further enhance your animated shorts and apply the industry best practices to your own projects and workflows.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136141973
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	03/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	277
File size:	100 MB
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About the Author

Karen Sullivan is faculty at Ringling College of Art and Design, teaches courses in history, concept development, and preproduction practices for animation. She has lectured internationally on story development for the animated short, written articles and guest-edited SIGGRAPH issues on concept development for animation.
Gary Schumer, faculty at Ringling College of Art and Design, teaches courses in traditional animation, storyboarding and concept development for animation. He worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1996-2004, as Effects Animator, Assistant Animator, Manager of Training and Training Coordinator. He also worked on Brother Bear, Mulan, Tarzan, and Lilo & Stitch.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Story Background and Theory; Chapter 2 Finding Ideas; Chapter 3 Acting; Chapter 4 Building Character and Location; Chapter 5 Building Story; Chapter 6 Off the Rails; Chapter 7 The Purpose of Dialogue; Chapter 8 Storyboarding; Chapter 9 Staging; Chapter 10 Developing a Short Animated Film with Aubry Mintz; Appendix;