– Story or the Character? Well, Story and Character strengthen and support each other and are created in parallel during the concept development stage. A good character can be developed from a story. A good character can in turn inspire a story. While Story is the important element in animation films (or live-action for that
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Thumbnails are drawn thoughts. These small sketches, combined with brief notes, capture ideas for a story or character so that the memory is not lost. Thumbnails can be worked up into a finished drawing at a later time. Always work rough before going clean. Do not render or model final drawings at this stage. Draw
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There are a number of differences in storyboarding a live action and animated productions. Most storyboarder specialize in one or the other, as their personal drawing style may not work for all types of productions. For instance, live action directors don’t want to see cartoony looking storyboards or live action story artist may not able
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Producing any Commercial, TV Show or Movie is like building a house. There are many elements to be design! And in order for the house to stand, all the elements need to work together. Every house needs blueprints before it can be build and blueprints are the architect’s vision. You can tell someone what kind
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When deciding what kind of story to tell in a film, ask yourself who the intended audience is. Are you producing for an Indian audience? While that is a viable production strategy, of course, but it is unlikely to land you on the list of Oscar nominees because western audiences simply do not buy stories
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As human beings, we live in a story all of the time. Story is as natural and essential to us as breathing. We all have stories to tell, but telling our personal stories on a daily basis and constructing a story from scratch are two very different things. Usually when we tell stories on a
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A Study of the present institutes can show you some surprising (let’s say startling) results. We’ll give their incompetent staff and courses some rest for a while and just deal with the figures for now. Okay so let’s say Institute “A” provides an Animation program for 24 months at around 1.5 lakhs. After which they
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Today was a black day for many of my friends at Rhythm and Hues, Mumbai. As many were given a month’s notice, also there were quite a few who were not so lucky. Those guys were told to immediately pack up and leave. Many departments were totally closed down. RnH as it is fondly called,
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Scripts are developed from whatever might inspire you to express and communicate something in visual and dramatic terms. All the following sources can serve as the basis for a dramatic or documentary project: Ideas Dreams Images Real events Characters Fantasies Concepts Memories Historical events Real-life experiences Places Social issues Adaptations from short stories News stories
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Most of the enthusiastic people in the CG industry always have this in mind. While its good to compare your work with those that are the icons of the Global CG Industry, there are more than a few things you should keep in mind while doing. Even though every other Pixar movie is an “overnight
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