Telling Stories

This is an article posted originally on the SIGGRAPH website. I found it so important for students to read it that I am reposting it here. But you can find the original link at: http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/character_animation/principles/lasseter_s94.htm Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer John Lasseter Pixar Reference: These notes come from Course 1 at SIGGRAPH 94,…

It’s always important (as part of being an artist and storyteller) to make sure you keep up with the works of other kooky and non-kooky artists and ideologies out there. To that effect I must say the internet is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Feel free to comment and show more interesting links under this thread,…

So, as discussed in class, there are a few basic elements that should be addressed when it comes to writing good short stories. We start with a basic Concept or moral to the story. This is not a list of what happens! This is the central idea that the audience can take-away from watching your…