Animation Writing and Development, : From Script Development to Pitch

by Jean Ann Wright

The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing and Development takes students and animation professionals alike through the process of creating original characters, developing a television series, feature, or multimedia project, and writing professional premises, outlines and scripts. It covers the process of developing presentation bibles and pitching original projects as well as ideas for episodes of shows already on the air. Animation Writing and Development includes chapters on animation history, on child development (writing for kids), and on storyboarding. It gives advice on marketing and finding work in the industry. It provides exercises for students as well as checklists for professionals polishing their craft. This is a guide to becoming a good writer as well as a successful one.

Genres: Art, Writing, Nonfiction

354 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Lookman Lookman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this several times. It is excellent.

[nalnalaaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I use this book as a guide and reference in making my thesis animation, it’s like a small pocket bible because it cover a lot of topics for animation, it also consist some practices so we can implement it from the get-go. Though some of the theories are outdated because animation industries keep evolving but it’s still a solid book

[Cortez_jk · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a school book for me. So I didn't have to read the entire book. What I did read was very informative, and the part that I appreciated the most were the checklists and the exercises after every chapter. The exercises brought a more creative aspect to this book, a few of the exercises were to watch movies so I thought that was pretty cool. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in writing for animation. It's a pretty well-rounded book. Some chapters are more in depth than others, but all around a great book to have.

[Tanvi Mestry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best informative book available for anyone who is looking forward to get their hands on animation writing, be it students are professionals. This book is a perfect guide. Jean is an excellent teacher.

[Charlotte Meridian · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easy read, but mostly just describes examples, besides maybe the script examples, and what children like at what ages, I did not find it very engaging, to me this book mainly just contains fluff ... but maybe I was led to expect too much.

[H Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super useful for writers, particularly screenwriters as well as comic book and graphic novel story creatives, who wish to better understand or write animation or animation-influenced scripts or stories.

[E · Rating 1 out of 5]

Feels like an endless bullet-pointed listicle, written at a ninth grade level. Absolute garbage.