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nikorolf
05-29-2006, 04:51 AM
Hey guys, 1st time poster but ive been viewing this forum for a long time and realise it is the perfect place to conduct some research for my final year uiniversity project. What im doing is researching into the posibilities of alternative narrative types for short animations. Specifically on how to tell a larger scale story when faced with the time constraining limitations of the 3d medium. So if your interested in telling larger scale storys through a smaller window, read on and hopefully in time you will be able to benifit from my research as a result.

A few short questions, just answer a few or as many as you like.

Are you a story teller, writer, an illustrator, anamator/ modeller/ 3d artist or other?
Is this a full time profession or a passion done in your own hoby time?

How much of what you do is story telling or narrative construction?

What apects of what you do, do you enjoy the most?

Do you tire of the same narrative structure which apears in alot of short animations (a short skit involving a comical punchline of somesort) or are your passionate about this and consider it a pop culture?

Do you feel limited in temrs of the scale of the story that you wish to tell by the time constraining limitations of your program/ medium?

Do you think you would benifit from a narrative structure template which you could use to tell a larger scale story through a smaller window? Have you atempted this something along these lines yourself?

If youve read all that then i guess your as interested as i hoped, so keep visiting and ill post progress, constuctive critisim and other coments are apreciated also.

Cheers

Kahpow
05-29-2006, 10:42 PM
Hey Nik,

Here are some thoughts on your questions:

Are you a story teller, writer, an illustrator, anamator/ modeller/ 3d artist or other?
Is this a full time profession or a passion done in your own hoby time?
I like to think of myself as a story teller, but am currently trained as an animator.

How much of what you do is story telling or narrative construction?
Narrative construction is a vital part of storytelling, and to me are the same thing. Narrative construction affects the story telling, and the story usually has a narrative structure that suits it best.

What apects of what you do, do you enjoy the most?
Making people laugh

Do you tire of the same narrative structure which apears in alot of short animations (a short skit involving a comical punchline of somesort) or are your passionate about this and consider it a pop culture?
Within the given timeframe, there really isn't much room to develop a deep storyline. The short skit is part of the genre, and part of film dating back to Charlie Chaplin's silent film days. Personally, I think it's a great part of animation and Pixar's earlier shorts are wonderful examples of really good short skits.

Do you feel limited in temrs of the scale of the story that you wish to tell by the time constraining limitations of your program/ medium?
No, often the story is limited by the intended audience. No one wants to sit through a 4 hour long animation detailing the international politics, regardless of how much I'd like to present that story.

Do you think you would benifit from a narrative structure template which you could use to tell a larger scale story through a smaller window? Have you atempted this something along these lines yourself?
What sort of smaller window are we talking about? if it's smaller in terms of time (between cuts), comic books have been really successful at telling (or hinting at) a broad story through a single page of drawings.

nikorolf
05-30-2006, 02:09 AM
cheers kah, yeah i do mean the time frame limitation, and cheers for the refernence about the comics, funny u say that caus alot of my research has been into closure and the way comics deal with time.

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