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

By Nancy Beiman

Book Overview

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, 3rd edition presents the methods and techniques of animation master, Nancy Beiman, with a focus on pre-production, story development and character design. As one of the only storyboard titles on the market that explores the intersection of creative character design and storyboard development, the third edition is an invaluable resource for both beginner and intermediate artists.

Key Features

Adapt key techniques, tips and tricks of experienced character designers and storyboard artists with 30 years of experience to your film, television and animation projects.

Save time and money with workflow solutions and avoid common mistakes and problems with troubleshooting tips.

Implement creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists with examples of what a good storyboard and character design should look like and example of poorly designed storyboards. and tricks.

Further your artistic skill development with an interactive, companion website which will includes video tutorials, examples of animatics and good and bad pitching techniques.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498797008
• ISBN13: 9781498797009
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

great animation book

Nancy explains how to create a good story and thoroughly provides examples of what makes a story good and what does not. This book is great for animators who want a quick explanation about storyboards, beat boards, etc! it's also very fun and easy to understand so finishing this book will not take too long!