Creating Animated Cartoons With Character: A Guide to Developing and Producing Your Own Series for TV, the Web, and Short Film
Creating Animated Cartoons With Character is a practical digital book on animated series development. In this PDF format, you can download instantly after purchase.
The guide by Joe Murray covers the steps involved in developing an idea into a series. It also addresses pitching, production planning, and preserving creative integrity.
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Book Overview
Creating Animated Cartoons With Character: A Guide to Developing and Producing Your Own Series for TV, the Web, and Short Film offers Joe Murray’s approach to building an animated series. The book is written for creators using an auteur-style process, where the creator contributes strongly to episodes and takes creative risks. It includes a foreword by Linda Simensky and an introduction featuring a quote from Steve Hillenburg.
The contents move from a brief history of the author’s path to cartooning and television animation. It then covers why a creator wants to do a series, how to refine the big idea, and why character is central to the series concept.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- How to define why you want to create a series and shape the aspiration behind it
- Ways to develop your series idea from your head and onto the page
- How character functions as the core of a great animated series
- How to prepare a series proposal, including crafting impact and handling rejection and revision
- What happens during development deals and producing a pilot
- How to build a team and manage series production, including preproduction, tracking an episode, and sound effects and music
Why This Book Matters
The book focuses on a creator-driven path to animation, aiming to bridge artistic vision and commercial production. It frames animated series work as structured and process-based, rather than purely spontaneous creativity.
It is also positioned for creators working across platforms, including television, the web, and short film. The included interviews and Q&A; support the practical guidance with perspectives from people working in the field.
Book Details
| Format | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 24.9 MB |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 240 |
| Title | Creating animated cartoons with character : a guide to developing and producing your own series for tv, the web, or short fi lm |
| Author | Joe Murray |
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill Publications |
| Imprint / Imprint of | Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. |
| Publisher Location | New York |
| Copyright | Copyright © 2010 by Joe Murray |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Printed In | Hong Kong |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8230-3307-2 |
| ISBN-10 | |
| Library of Congress Control Number | 2009049296 |
| Library of Congress Classification | PN1992.8.A59M87 2010 |
| Series | |
| Foreword | Linda Simensky |
| Included Interviews / Q&A | Q&A with Steve Hillenburg; Q&A with Craig McCracken |
| All Rights Reserved | All rights reserved. |
| First Edition Number Line | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 |
Device Compatibility
This is a digital download. There is no physical shipping.
After purchase, access is available for reading on supported devices. You can use appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop, mobile, or other reading apps compatible with PDF files.
No printing is promised.
FAQ
How do I access the book after purchase?
You can download it instantly after your order is completed.
Is there a printed copy included?
No. This listing is for a digital PDF file only.
Will it work on my device?
It is compatible with devices that can open PDF files, including common reading apps and supported Kindle apps.
If you’re building an animated series and want a structured guide, this PDF from digitaldelights.co is ready to download.
Verified Bibliographic Details
| Introduction quote | —Steve Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants |
|---|---|
| All art | All art © Joe Murray Studio Inc. unless otherwise noted. |
| Published in the United States by | Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. |
| ISBN-13 | ISBN 978-0-8230-3307-2 (alk. paper) |
| LC Classification | PN1992.8.A59M87 2010 |
| DC22 | 791.4502’32–dc22 |
| LC Control Number | 2009049296 |
| Printed in | Printed in Hong Kong |
| Item title statement (CIP/LC) | Creating animated cartoons with character : a guide to developing and producing your own series for tv, the web, or short fi lm |
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