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INDEXWhat's the best way to get a film script made into an animation?
11 years, 11 months ago - Darren Roberts
I've written a film that I think could work well as an animated film, I've looked around for animation production companies but I've only been able to find companies to hire rather than a company that might buy a script to produce, so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any responses
Darren
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11 years, 11 months ago - ed hartwell
One way is to record the voices, do a story board and make an animatic of the film by editing the voices and drawings together. Come up with a distribution strategy, then see if a friendly animator on shooting people wants to animate it for you.
You can even use the animatic to apply for funding.
In short, the more pre-production you do the easier it is to get things into production. Nobody is sitting around looking at their animation studio and piles of money thinking "if only I had an idea for a film".
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11 years, 11 months ago - JoWOnder JoWOnder
Hi Darren,
it's a difficult position to be in as production companies are often lead by aspiring writer directors who have their own projects that they want to make, and the team that they work with also has projects that they want making into films too.
It is human nature to want to help friends that you know and work with already, so approaching people 'cold' is difficult.
If you get any ideas back regarding your question, I would be interested to hear, as I'm an award winning animator who has made work written and directed by myself for television companies, such as channel four and BBC2, and because I'm not currently attached to an animation production company am finding it very difficult to even get people to read my feature film idea based on a novella that I've written.
Good luck
JoWOnder
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11 years, 11 months ago - Darren Roberts
I seems the animation industry is very different than the film industry, a film production company makes it's own stuff but will often still accept script submissions but it seems most animation companies work for other people and as I'm not an animator or an artist I couldn't do a story board (or not a good one that makes sense)
The film I've written could be done live action but it's a creature feature so would require a lot of special effects, closing off streets etc that is either expensive or time consuming so I thought maybe I could do it as an animation, guess I was wrong.
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