Story Structure and Development: A Guide for Animators, VFX Artists, Game Designers, and Virtual Reality

by Craig Caldwell

Professor Craig Caldwell’s Story Structure and Development offers a clear approach to the essentials of story. It lays out the fundamental elements, principles, and structure for animators, designers, and artists so they can incorporate these concepts in their work. As a practical guide it includes extensive insights and advice from industry professionals. Readers will learn the universal patterns of story and narrative used in today’s movies, animation, games, and VR. With over 200 colorful images, this book has been designed for visual learners, and is organized to provide access to story concepts for the screen media professional and student. Readers will discover the story fundamentals referred to by every director and producer when they say "It’s all about story".

 

Key Features

Consolidates into one text universal story structure used across the digital media industryIncludes enormous visuals that illustrate and reinforce concepts for visual learnersOrganizes content for faculty to use sections in a non-linear mannerIncludes chapter objectives, review questions, and key terms to guide the reader

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, College

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 19, 2017

Reviews

[Susanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was repetitive, but since it's built to be a kind of textbook, it is understandable. Plus, the repetition helped to remember the important bits better.
I really loved the modern examples (I mean I love Pixar anyway...), these were very helpful to connect theories to real instances. I believe I understand story structure much better now.

Overall, a very nice and easy-reading textbook. :)