Character Development for Visual Storytelling in Traditional and Digital Media

This chapter is focused on text visualization and storytelling delivered in various literary styles. Discussion pertains storytelling by drawing, both with traditional techniques and digital storytelling for multimedia. Building characters for visual storytelling is discussed in theoretical and historical terms, followed by a description of the process of creating characters, their environment, writing a storyline, designing a storyboard and animatic. Projects offer practical examples of the visual storytelling production.