Research: Story and Character Development for Animation

Still from Story and Character Development for Animation by Andrew Gordon and Nathan Stanton

This 15 minute course on LinkedIn Learning shows how a Pixar Story Artist, Nathan Stanton, and Directing Animator, Andrew Gordon, work together to storyboard an animated short. They show their research process in developing a film noir style story about animals in a pet shop taking on a gangster. Together they watch some films to study the style, character designs, behaviour and composition, and visit a pet store to study the behaviour of the animals and interact with them in person. 

This is an interesting approach to research, looking both at primary sources and the real world to gather inspiration and knowledge.