Animated Storytelling, 2nd edition

Animation is a limitless medium for telling stories. Artists can create worlds, defy gravity, flip from factual to fantasy, and transport audiences to places they never imagined. The challenge is having the discipline to reel it in and be intentional about your storytelling choices. This book shows you how.

In Animated Storytelling, learn how to create memorable stories using animation and motion graphics by following 10 simple guidelines that take you through the stages of concept development, pre-production, storyboarding, and design. Explore traditional linear storytelling and learn different processes for creating successful nonlinear animated stories, and also discover the wonders of experimental filmmaking.

Award-winning filmmaker, educator, and motivator Liz Blazer uses clear examples and easy-to-follow exercises to provide students with the instruction, encouragement, and tools they need to get their designs moving.

Whether your course is designed to help students create exciting shorts for film festivals, effective messaging for broadcast or online, or simply to gain a deeper understanding of the medium, Animated Storytelling simplifies the process of creating clear and engaging stories for animation and motion graphics so students can get started easily.

Animated Storytelling teaches students how to:

• Write a creative brief for a project

• Find and communicate a story’s Big Idea

• Create tight stories with linear and nonlinear structures

• Explore experimental filmmaking techniques

• Use storyboards to communicate a visual story

• Use color to clarify and enrich a story

• Define the rules for an animated world

• Ease into the challenging task of animation

• Make the work students want to be hired to do

• Share their work with the world!