Summarise

To summaries my understanding of character and narrative, I am going to state what I thing what makes a success from stringing together different examples to form an evaluated assumption as to what works the best

The crucial step

Pre production

From experience in creating my own animations, I think the design aspect of the characters and narrative are the most important stage of creation, for without the plans to create you don't have an ultimate goal to reach for.

So Character Design

And storyboarding to create the environment for those characters to inhabit and experience!

With these initial designs fleshed out the rest of the production can begin, which ever method in which this is achieved, and then to be polished up in post production.

And then if these steps are followed well, the result will be a brilliant piece of art that has the characters and narratives working in conjunction to deliver the best possible result!