Question:
Need help, somebody please answer (preferably animated book readers)?
Tash Prado
2011-09-01 08:30:48 UTC
hey:), so heres my question and problem, i want to make my own animated book series, my own adventure, my own fantasy..im only a 16 year old boy but i wanna do this when im older..i got a story inside my head though, the storyline is probably gonna be about me and my life.. but i got the story in my head! i got my own little fantasy in my head i just cant put it on paper and structure it together to come up with a story line..can somebody please give me advice? thanks to whoever answers this question
Three answers:
Blargy Mcblarg
2011-09-01 09:00:46 UTC
If you do plan on doing it in the future, I suggest to you for now is to write all your great ideas, plot twists, anything you think would be intresting into a notebook. After you empty your mind into that notebook, just leave it on your dresser for about a month, let it settle and after a good period of time pick it up and re read everything you wrote. By then you would probably find that a lot of your stuff that you thought would be amazing... Is actually crap and you just need a fresh look at what you intended at writing. Then scribble out what you thought was bad, draw arrows connecting key points, and add more ideas that would create a more juicier story. Then this is where you find a good start to your story, this is key, after you read through all your ideas you need to find the beginning for your story. Writing down the beginning is a lot more important than you would think, this first chapter defines if the story is a narrative or not, creates the tone of the whole series, and how the reader is going to connect to the main protagonist. And since its an animated book you can draw doodles in a comic strip style to accompany your writing. After doing this leave everything you have completed and grab some fresh paper and then really flesh out the characters, create a back story for each, give them specific traits, nervous ticks, etc. You can also sketch basic character designs for each character. Do this for about a week until you have a solid base line for the characters to motivate the story. Now the rest is just like before, write down a section of the story, lay it down, let your head settle, then reread it, cross out the crap, add better ideas, and then go on to the next part. Rinse and Repeat. After doing so for anywhere from half a year to 5 years and creating a solid story, hone your drawing/animating skills so the story can lend itself to your animating style.



Those are my teachings...



Gud luck
2011-09-01 08:56:19 UTC
Yo. I'm a 16 year old too, so my advice is probably not too great but i want to be an editor so hopefully i may be able to help... I think the first thing you need to do is write down a few key words or phrases, descriptions or lines from your story, on a piece of paper, not on microsoft word or whatever, so you can make spider diagrams, add things/ cross things out. Then you need to think of a beginning, middle and ending. Start of vague, maybe just think about what you want to be the "moral" or point of the story to be. Just keep writing down anything you think of, any inspirational lines on existing stories, things you may want to include, little pictures of the main character's clothes (weapons? If you're doing that kind of story) but don't think about writing the story. Just write down ideas and mull over your fantasy any time you can, Like when i'm in bed, i create my own little stories before i go to sleep. Then, eventually when you think you're pieceS of paper are full of ideas and other random pictures, write a rough draft. Start very rough, then with a red pen, move paragraphs around, cross out things when you think it's getting boring, and then add more info, descriptions and story. I think of stories like bodies; first you have the skeleton, which is the plotline, which has to be strong and pretty flexible. Then the meat and muscles are the story telling. They strengthen the the body, make it move, get it going. The organs are the characters, they're essential, as bodies can't function without/ with bad ones; they need to be perfect. Then you have the skin, which is your audience, as skin shows age. Think about the audience you're targeting and use suitable language (ie don't use long words if it's for children) Then the clothes. Perfect your story, keep preening it, make it look nice, neat and tidy.
Cornell
2016-05-10 05:16:37 UTC
Create Your Own Animations : http://3dAnimationCartoons.com/?jWNw


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