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| Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy Beiman
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (24 reviews)
Sales Rank: 63731
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0240808207
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4334
EAN: 9780240808208
ASIN: 0240808207
Publication Date: March 2, 2007
Release Date: March 2, 2007
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EXQUISITELY WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED!!! March 14, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Nancy Beiman is a tremendously gifted director, animator, storyboard artist, educator, and author. Prepare to Board is a phenomenal piece of work. It is exquisitely written and illustrated. The content and context of this book are of the highest quality done to date. She cleverly balances all aspects of the preproduction process with visual and textual clarity. Prepare to Board supersedes all other material that is currently available on the subject of storyboarding. Nancy's professional experience goes back more than 30 years of personally working with Disney veterans who pioneered the craft of animation. It does not get better than that, folks!
It is with great pleasure that Prepare to Board gets my highest recommendation!! We enthusiastically will be adding this textbook to our bibliography.
Michael Genz,
Assistant Professor, Animation
Edinboro University of PA
Buy it, you'll use it! March 13, 2007
Kudos! This is an excellent book in every way. Goes way beyond storyboarding, and I hope people will realize that...it looks to be one of the very best and most useful and instructive books on animation, period. And there's a lot in here to learn about film making in general - animation (traditional or CGI) or live action. A very impressive accomplishment. Most books on animation do not have the instant 'I-wanna-read-this' quality that 'Prepare to Board' does...many of them can be a bit of a slog to get through. But this one is so well written, with references that are clear and interesting and new, that it draws you in from the start. And the illustrations are well chosen and varied. In the spirit of full disclosure, one of those illustrations is mine, and Nancy and I were partners in our own animation company for a time. But that has not influenced this review, except to the extent that I came to this book in the knowledge that Nancy really knows her subject. Fortunately, it shows. This will be used by students and teachers, and professionals as well, for a long time to come. Buy it, use it, refer to it often!
- Dean Yeagle, cartoonist and animator, Caged Beagle Productions, Inc.
An Animation Student's Best Friend March 12, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is impressive, informative, and well crafted. Reading this book will put any wanna-be animation artist on the fast track. Every animation school should consider using this book as a required text. I highly recommend it to any students, teachers, or lovers of animation.
im buying it March 9, 2007
this woman works over at RIT i believe and she came to my school, edinboro university, and did the coolest workshop on character design. she did it for about 2 hours and it was the most inspiring thing ever. i dont need to see a review, im buying it.
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