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Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts

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Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts book

2nd Edition

Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts

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Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts book

2nd Edition
ByNancy Beiman
Edition 2nd Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 8 December 2015
Pub. location Boca Raton
Imprint CRC Press
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780240818993
Pages 359 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429225338
SubjectsArts
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Beiman, N. (2013). Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts. Boca Raton: CRC Press, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780240818993

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 deve

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part One: Getting Started

chapter 1|14 pages

First Catch Your Rabbit: Creating Concepts and Characters

chapter 2|20 pages

Vive la Diff erence! Animation and Live-action Storyboards

chapter 3|12 pages

Putting Yourself into Your Work

chapter 4|8 pages

Situation and Character-Driven Stories

chapter 5|8 pages

What If? Contrasting the Possible and the Fanciful

chapter 6|18 pages

Appealing or Appalling? Beginning Character

WithDesign

chapter 7|12 pages

Size Matters: The Importance of Scale

chapter 8|10 pages

Beauties and Beasts: Creating Character Contrasts in

WithDesign

chapter 9|10 pages

Location, Location, Location: Art Direction and Storytelling

part |2 pages

Part Two: Technique

chapter 10|24 pages

Tonal Sketches

chapter 11|12 pages

Made You Look: Using Tone and Line to Direct the Eye

chapter 12|12 pages

Boarding Time: Getting with the Story Beat

chapter 13|14 pages

The Big Picture: Creating Story Sequences

chapter 14|28 pages

Patterns in Time: Pacing Action on Rough Boards

chapter 15|10 pages

Present Tense: Creating a Performance on Storyboards

chapter 16|22 pages

Diamond in the Rough Model Sheet: Refi ning Character Designs

chapter 17|16 pages

Color My World: Art Direction and Storytelling

part |2 pages

Part Three: Presentation

chapter 18|12 pages

Show and Tell: Presenting Your Storyboards

chapter 19|8 pages

Talking Pictures: Assembling a Leica, Story Reel or Animatic with a Scratch Track

chapter 20|8 pages

Build a Better Mouse: Creating Cleanup Model Sheets

chapter 21|8 pages

Maquette Simple: Modeling Characters in Three Dimensions

chapter 22|12 pages

Am I Blue? Creating Character Through Color

chapter 23|2 pages

Screen and Screen Again: Preparing for Production

chapter 24|6 pages

Further Reading: Books, Discs, and Websites

chapter 25|18 pages

Appendices: Animated Interviews

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