Directing for Animation

Author: Tony Bancroft
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1136126538
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
There’s no class in art school that can teach you this. Believe it or not, there’s a lot more to directing a great animated film than beautiful illustrations and cool characters. You need to bring out your inner creative visionary and take your savvy leadership skills to the front lines - being great with a pencil, brush, or stylus is not enough. Tony Bancroft released his inner creative visionary when creating Mulan. In Directing for Animation he shows you exactly how. Pull the right strings to bring your characters to life and center your story by developing the visual cues that lend to your audiences understanding of the plot, place, and purpose. Tony walks you through the process, bringing you behind the scenes of real, well-known projects - with a little help from some famous friends. Learn from the directors of Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Ice Age, Chicken Run, and Kung Fu Panda, and see how they developed stories and created characters that have endured for generations. Get the inside scoop behind these major features...pitfalls and all.

Directing Animation

Author: David B. Levy
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1581157460
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
"The most comprehensive book on directing animation from one of the best writers in the business."---Bill Plympton, Oscar-nominated indie animation director --

Directing the Story

Author: Francis Glebas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136138692
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, shows how to reach the ultimate goal of animation and moviemaking by showing how to provide audiences with an emotionally satisfying experience. Directing the Story offers a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. With Francis' help you'll discover the professional storytelling techniques which have swept away generations of movie goers and kept them coming back for more. You'll also learn to spot potential problems before they cost you time or money and offers creative solutions to solve them. Best of all, it practices what it preaches, using a graphic novel format to demonstrate the professional visual storytelling techniques you need to know.

Animated 'Worlds'

Author: Suzanne Buchan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0861969278
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "a world" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "the world"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of "worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory, and digital aesthetics. Authors include Vivian Sobchack, Richard Weihe, Thomas Lamarre, Paul Wells, and Karin Wehn.

Film Directing Shot by Shot

Author: Steven Douglas Katz
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN: 9780941188104
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
An instant classic since its debut in 1991, Film Directing: Shot By Shot and its famous blue cover is one of the most well-known books on directing in the business, and is a favorite of professional directors as an on-set quick reference guide.

Layout and Composition for Animation

Author: Ed Ghertner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136129898
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
This essential, hands-on guide is filled with examples of what a composition should look like and example of poorly designed layouts. Spot potential problems before they cost time and money, and adapt creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists. With Beauty and the Beast examples and Simpson character layouts, readers will learn how to develop character layout and background layout as well as strengthen composition styles with a creative toolset of trick shot examples and inspirational case studies. A companion website will include further technique based tools, finalized layout and composition examples and tutorials for further artistic skill development.

Storytelling Through Animation

Author: Mike Wellins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584503941
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 435

Book Description
Learn the skills and techniques needed to tell your own great visual stories/ explore story modes, emotional connection development, and all the animation techniques needed/ find valuable insights and tips from industry pros and view a variety of film clip examples.

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video

Author: David K. Irving
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1136048340
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video is the definitive book on the subject for beginning filmmakers and students. The book clearly illustrates all of the steps involved in preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both producer and director, and explains how their separate energies must combine to create a successful short film or video, from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from award-winning shorts and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them. The companion website contains useful forms and information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations.

Digital Cinematography & Directing

Author: Dan Ablan
Publisher: New Riders
ISBN: 0132798204
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
digital Cinematography and Directing is unlike any other cinematography or directing book you've seen. This book was written entirely for 3D animators. Based on real-world photographic and cinematic principles, it teaches you essential skills and concepts that you can apply to any industry 3D application, such as LightWave 3D, Softimage XSI, 3ds max, CINEMA 4D, Maya, and other leading programs. This book does not focus on using software but rather teaches you how to understand and use the camera within your 3D application. Master focal lengths, f-stops, and apertures within your 3D aplication. Learn how pre-production planning can guide and enhance your project by applying essential storyboarding techniques. Use light as not only an illumination source, but as a tool for cinematic storytelling. Learn how to direct your digital cast with proper staging techniques "Dan Ablan's years of innovating digital production techniques and his undeniable expertise at teaching CGI, FX, and Film, makes digitalCinematography and Directing a must-have!" -Dave Adams, Dreamworks.

Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation

Author: Hans Bacher
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136139575
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
A truly unique visual delight offering insight into the development of animation classics like Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Lilo and Stitch as well as a tantalizing examination of unfinished Disney projects.