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Confl ict
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Drama.
Remember that there are three, and only three, kinds of confl ict:
1. Character vs. Character
Characters need opposing goals. If both characters want the same thing, there is either:
a) no confl ict, or b) you can tell the story with one character.
2. Character vs. Environment
The character must struggle against the environment.
3. Character vs. Self
This is the hardest to animate because the confl ict is internal. Eureka! does a good job of
making an internal confl ict (the need to think of an idea, to solve a problem) external-
ized in the light bulb above the professor's head. When the normal process or pathway
to creativity is broken, the professor fl ails wildly in frustration, unaware that the source
of her ideas is still there. Order is restored only when a new pathway is achieved.
When discussing confl ict, it is also necessary to discuss what confl ict is not. Confl ict is not a sword
fi ght, a war, a car chase, or a competition. These are the results of the character in opposition.
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