Character development and the problems in that process

ABSTRACT The technological developments thats accelerate in the nineteenth century had many influences on arts. In this period the art of painting could not overcome the problems posed by the objective reality and the fourth dimension or movement, so the photographic technologies became predominant. The first studies on the infrastructure of photography and filmmaking began to speed up in this period. Throughout the process the art of cinema was born with this unique language, technical evolution process and basic components, thanks to the studies of distinguished cinema theorists and directors. Animation come on to the stage in the same period. Utilizing the language of cinema, this new branch of art nourished in a short time. Obviously, there has been certain problems in the development process of cinema and consequentially animated films. These problems may be summarized as the ignorance on the original character development, the absence of depth of literary pre-studies for the characters developed for animation films and the resulting problems of relevant visualization of characters. The study emphasizes the importance of literary pre-studies specially required for animation films. Through an analysis of the problems faced when working, it is aimed to transform the literary pre-studies to the model sheet at the final stage of the character development process.