Kate Alexander Knihy

Build your skills in the development of story ideas that will command an audience for your 2-5 minute animated short.Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form.The companion DVD includes in-depth interviews with industry insiders, 18 short animations (many with accompanying animatics, character designs and environment designs) and an acting workshop to get your animated short off to a flying start!With Ideas for the Animated Short you'll learn Story Background and Theory * Building Better Content * Exploring the Human Condition * Building Character and Location * Building Story * Dialogue * Storyboarding * Staging

Young Anne Harwick returns home from Canada to post-war Britain recently widowed, and with her little daughter at her side. The return to her native village is bitter-sweet. Still mourning the death of her husband in Korea, Anne quickly settles down to making a living for herself and little Melanie in the changing village of Brinthorpe, where steelmaking is the only employment and the threat of nationalization pulls the workers and their masters in different directions. Although determined to build a career for herself, Anne soon finds herself torn between two men: Jeff Blackmore -- ambitious, magnetic, and strong-willed... and Jocelin Tyndall, son of the powerful Sir Fred Tyndall. In the end, she makes her choice -- and it is a choice that, in the years that follow, she finds herself reconsidering.