Prepare to board! : creating story and characters for animated features and shorts / Nancy Beiman.
"Create realistic characters; with genuine thoughts, emotions?and conflicts. Packed with colorful illustrations that illuminate, this book clearly explains the methods and techniques of animation preproduction, with a focus on story development and character design. Examples of story boards, co...
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Focal Press,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. First, catch your rabbit
- 2. Vive la Difference! : animation and live-action storyboards
- 3. Putting yourself into your work
- 4. Situation and character-driven stories
- 5. What if? : contrasting the possible and the fanciful
- 6. Appealing or appalling? : beginning character design
- 7. Size matters : the importance of scale
- 8. Beauties and beasts : creating character contrasts in design
- 9. Location, location, location : art direction and storytelling
- 10. Starting story sketch : compose yourself
- 11. Roughing it : basic staging
- 12. Boarding time : getting with the story beat
- 13. The big picture : creating story sequences
- 14. Patterns in time : pacing action on rough boards
- 15. Present tense : creating performance on storyboard
- 16. Diamond in the rough model sheet : refining character designs
- 17. Color my world : art direction and storytelling
- 18. Show and tell : pitching your storyboards
- 19. Talking pictures : assembling a story reel or animatic with a scratch track
- 20. Build a better mouse : creating cleanup model sheets
- 21. Maquette simple : modeling characters in three dimensions
- 22. Am I blue? : creating character through color
- 23. Screen and screen again : preparing for production
- 24. Further reading : books, discs, and Websites
- 25. Appendices : animated interviews.