Matakuliah
Tahun
: UO656 / DKV IV
: 2009
Animasi.ShortStory
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Introduction
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What is short animation?
Story & storytelling
Production pipeline
Short animation sample
what is a short animation?
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Short animation movie, less than 15min in duration.
One man show / small team.
Simple, linear, extremely efficient.
Single / small number of character.
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Good short animation
• Entertaining successfully capture and maintain audience’s
attention
• Accessible get audience connection, believable story, easy to
follow, not confusing
• Original unique story, characters, environment, or visual style
• Memorable
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Six laws of short animation production
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Story elements are more important than production
elements
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(plot, story, character, pacing, structure) VS (design,
modeling, animation, effect, etc)
Don’t bite off more than you can chew, and always
think ahead economy and efficiency! simple
Show some originality
You must like your film elements (or nobody else will!)
Save often and back up regularly
There are no rules!
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Short animation samples
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Story
• Telling or retelling an incident/event something physically, mentally,
spiritually, that changes overtime, location, possession, attitude; goal is reached
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Journey is completed ; problem is solved ; item is retrieved ; decision is maded
• Mix & balance between imagination & realism
• “Good story”  capture and maintain audience’s
attention
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Story elements
• Plot  flow of events, cause & effects
• Character  living being who responds the events
• Setting  locations or era
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Storytelling
• Genre  drama, comedy, suspense, scifi & fantasy, horror, romance etc
• Structure  logical & dramatic ways of the plot points and character
progression
• Pacing  timing of the story
• Production element (camera direction, animation, visual
style, lighting)
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Structure of the story
• Popular ‘three-act story’ structure:
Beginning – middle – end
• Beginning : intro to characters, goal, conflicts
• Middle : main action of the conflict and the climax
• End : resolution
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case study
• Let us discuss!
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