Basics Animation: Scriptwriting

by Paul Wells

The Lion King. Spirited Away. Wallace and Gromit. Toy Story 2. What makes these animated movies great? The stories they tell, and the ways those stories are told. Animation can go where no other filmmaking can, and great scriptwriting can take animation where no other movies have. Basics Scriptwriting, the follow-up to the successful title The Fundamentals of Animation, looks at a variety of approaches to scriptwriting for animation using vivid examples from great animated movies. Author Paul Wells explores the distinctive qualities of animation as a form of creative expression and explains the choices and approaches available to the scriptwriter, the animator, and the director.

186 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 12, 2007

Reviews

[Lycoris Radiatta · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely boring for me, it’s too basic.

[Tariq Rimawi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The readers learn many interesting terms which used in animation field.