Animated Storytelling: Simple Steps For Creating Animation and Motion Graphics, 1st edition

Published by Peachpit Press (November 19, 2015) © 2016

  • Liz Blazer
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Animated Storytelling is an approachable and easy-to-follow guide that teaches students how to create memorable stories using animation and motion graphics. The book’s friendly tone and boiled-down ideas take them through the stages of concept development, pre-production, storyboarding, and design (including color, world building, and sound) with clear examples and easy-to-follow assignments. With an emphasis on pre-visualization, technique selection, and experimentation, this book provides illustration students, graphic design students, and animation students, with useful tools to help get their designs moving with meaning at any budget.

1. Pre-Production
The doorway to a well-planned animated piece

2. Storytelling
Tame the limitless medium

3. Storyboarding
Build your visual script

4. Color Sense
Enhance your story with the right palette

5. Weird Science
Experiment with animation

6. Sound Ideas
Get your audio and story in sync

7. Design Wonderland
World building and environmental design

8. Technique
Marry style and story

9. Animate!
Big-picture thinking, frame by frame

10. Show and Tell
Create, share, and network

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