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Filmmakers/Animators get this book!

Seriously its like the best thing ever... I've had it for awhile and just skimmed through it... This week I'm studying it and it's great! If your getting ready to write a script or reworking one this man has the information that you need so buy his mega_awesome book as soon as you can then you can follow along because as this blog moves on I'll probably use a lot of the terminology from this book along with Egri's books... I'll make a new list of books I'm reading now and post it soon.

Micro_introduction

Hallo I'm M dot Strange a lone animator creating strange new films for this bland old world... This new blog marks the end of my work on "We are the strange" and the beginning of my new animated featured film that for now I will call "Mysterious doll film" I have the real title but knowing it would give away too much about the story. I've learned a lot about animation and production in general since I started "We are the Strange" so I'm planning on completing this film in less than 2 years. Stylistically this new film will be similar to "WATS" although it will be much more refined and contain more 3d animation. I've been doing some tests with a new 3d style that I will employ in MDF (mysterious doll film) and it will allow for a much more flexible production process than the stopmo/3d one I used in WATS. This new film will also contain much more dialog than WATS, lip sync is usually very time consuming to animate that is one of th