The Story Arc Worksheet, a 29-page, part-theory, part-fillable worksheet that walks you through building the story for your next animated short, from scratch, the way we actually do it.

This one is for you if:

• You have a short film idea but every time you sit down to work on it, you don't know where the story is actually going

• You've started animating before locking the story and ended up abandoning the project halfway through

• You've started overly ambitious shorts in the past and couldn't finish because the story was too big to hold together

The Story Arc Worksheet walks you through the exact process we use to develop stories for our shorts. We also looked at what's out there and there is nothing like this. Every other storytelling resource is built for feature films or written as a book you read and then set down. This is a fillable worksheet covering every aspect of story, made specifically for animated shorts. Characters first. World second. Story from there. By the time you finish filling it in, you'll have a locked logline, a three-act breakdown, and a full scene summary. Everything you need to go straight into production.

It's everything we wished we had before we started making shorts.

What's inside:

• How we actually develop stories, the real process, not the textbook version

• The full range of what your short can be, with real examples across comedy, drama, and experimental work

• A breakdown of story arcs and the three storytelling frameworks that actually matter for shorts under 5 minutes

• A character worksheet built around how we think in tiers: who's the star, who's support, who's world-building

• A world-building section so the rules of your film are locked before you animate a single frame

• A peaks and valleys breakdown so every scene has a job

• A complete logline template and scene summary table to reference before every production session

• A scope and commitment page so you know exactly what you're making before you start animating

Delivered as a PDF