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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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PREPARE TO BOARD!CREATING STORY AND CHARACTERS FOR ANIMATED FEATURES AND SHORTS; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Dedication and Thanks; Part One: Getting Started; 1 First Catch Your Rabbit: Creating Concepts and Characters; Linear and Non-linear Storytelling; Setting Limitations and Finding Liberation; Shopping for Story: Creating Lists; Nothing Is Normal: Researching Action; All Thumbs: Quick Sketches and Thumbnails; Reality Is Overrated; Past and Present: Researching Settings and Costumes; 2 Vive la Diff erence! Animation and Live-action Storyboards; Graphic Novels: Shaping the Frame |
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Screen Ratios: The Fixed FrameTelevision Boards and Feature Boards; Technological T(h)reats; Digital Storyboard: An Interview with Elliot Cowan; Who Loves Short Shorts?; 3 Putting Yourself into Your Work; The Use of Symbolic Animals and Objects; The Newsman's Story Guide: Who, What, When, Where and Why; 4 Situation and Character-Driven Stories; Stop If You've Heard This One; Defi ning Confl; Log Lines; Stealing the Show; Parodies and Pastiches; 5 What If? Contrasting the Possible and the Fanciful; Beginning at the Ending: The Tex Avery 'Twist'; Establishing Rules |
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6 Appealing or Appalling? Beginning Character DesignReading the Design: Silhouette Value; Construction Sights; Foundation Shapes and Their Meaning; The Shape of Things; Going Organic; Creating a Character from Inanimate Objects; Across the Universe; 7 Size Matters: The Importance of Scale; Practicing Your Scales; Stereotypes of Scale; Triple Trouble: Working with Similar Character Silhouettes; Getting Pushy; 8 Beauties and Beasts: Creating Character Contrasts in Design; I Feel Pretty! Changing Standards of Beauty; A Face That Only a Mother Could Love? |
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Gods and Monsters: Contrasting Appearance and Personality9 Location, Location, Location: Art Direction and Storytelling; Part Two: Technique; 10 Starting Story Sketch: Compose Yourself; Tonal Sketches; Graphic Images Ahead!; The Drama in the Drawings: Using Contrast to Direct the Eye; The Best-Laid Floor Plans; Outgrowing Your Furniture; Structure: The Mind's Eye; The Wonderful World of Color Accents and Keys; 11 Roughing It: Basic Staging; Made You Look: Using Tone and Line to Direct the Eye; I'm Ready For My Close-Up: Storyboard Cinematography; 12 Boarding Time: Getting with the Story Beat |
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Working to the Beat: Story Beats and BoardsSizing Things Up; Do You Want to Talk About It?; 13 The Big Picture: Creating Story Sequences; Turning the Page: Sequential Construction from Literature; Arcs and Triumphs; Acting Up: Identifying Acts and Sequences in your Story; Pacing the Film; Acting Out: Acts and Sequences; Outlines and Treatments; A-B-Sequences: Prioritizing the Action; Naming Names; 14 Patterns in Time: Pacing Action on Rough Boards; How Many Panels Do You Use in a Storyboard?; Yakkity Yak: Dialogue on the Storyboard; Writes and Wrongs: Using Transitions; Climactic Events |
| Summary |
Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences. Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, Prepare to Board, 2nd edition presents the methods and techniques of animation master, Nancy Beiman, with a focus on pre-production, story development and character design. As one of the only storyboard titles on the market that explores the intersection of creative character design and storyboard development, the second edition of Prepare to Board is an invaluable resource for beginner and |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Animation (Cinematography)
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Animated films -- Authorship
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Cartoon characters.
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Comic strip characters.
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animations (visual works)
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animation (process)
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Comic strip characters
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Animated films -- Authorship
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Animation (Cinematography)
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Cartoon characters
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136142543 |
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1136142541 |
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