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Everybody chips in ten cents, and somehow it seems to add up to a Dollar’: exploring the visual toolbox of animation story design

Everybody chips in ten cents, and somehow it seems to add up to a Dollar’: exploring the visual toolbox of animation story design

Pallant, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1308-2565 and Wells, Paul (2023) Everybody chips in ten cents, and somehow it seems to add up to a Dollar’: exploring the visual toolbox of animation story design. In: Davies, Rosamund ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8645-8271, Russo, Paolo and Tieber, Claus, (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0) . Palgrave Macmillan - Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 563-585. ISBN 978-3031207686; 978-3031207693 (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20769-3_30)

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Abstract

The specific endeavour of exploring—let alone defining—the multiple approaches to writing for the animated form is a comparatively new area of enquiry and theoretical development. Arguably, for every animation project there is a distinctive method and approach. This is related to the view that writing for animation is bound up with its production context and its eventual outcome. Therefore, this chapter is intended as a starting point for readers keen to learn more about the vocabularies of animated storytelling. Focus is placed on: the animation toolbox (the core characteristics of animation that underpin the development of any animation script—essentially the tools that any one writer must be aware of when thinking about creating animated narratives); micro-narratives (the fundamental building blocks when constructing animated narratives); storyboarding; and production contexts (feature film, television, independently produced shorts and metamedia).

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: animation; production studies; design
Subjects: N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
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Last Modified: 09 Apr 2024 08:11
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/46619

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