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Animation Templates

Screenplays specifically written for animated production — feature films (70-90 pages), TV episodes (11-22 pages), or shorts. Animation scripts are typically shorter than live-action because animated scenes often play faster. The medium allows unlimited visual imagination while demanding precise visual storytelling on the page.

11-90 pages|20 genres
70-85 pages (feature), 11-22 pages (TV)

Action Animation

Animation scripts built around spectacular, physics-defying action sequences impossible in live-action. Animated action demands visual precision in every stage direction.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseThe IncrediblesAkira
70-85 pages (feature), 11-22 pages (TV)

Comedy Animation

Animated comedy scripts that leverage the medium's visual freedom to deliver physical comedy, absurd situations, and character-based humor impossible in live-action.

ShrekThe SimpsonsBob's Burgers
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Drama Animation

Emotionally mature animated storytelling that uses the medium's visual expressiveness to convey feelings, memories, and inner states that live-action struggles to externalize.

Spirited AwayCocoPersepolis
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Thriller Animation

Animated suspense that uses the medium's visual control to create precisely designed tension, atmosphere, and psychological unease through impossible imagery.

Perfect BluePaprikaPsycho-Pass
75-85 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Horror Animation

Animated horror that uses the medium's visual freedom to create nightmarish imagery, uncanny designs, and atmospheric dread that blurs the line between the beautiful and the terrifying.

CoralineParanormanJunji Ito Collection
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Sci-Fi Animation

Animated science fiction that builds entire speculative worlds without VFX budgets, allowing pure visual imagination to create futures, alien worlds, and technological visions.

WALL-EGhost in the ShellFuturama
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Romance Animation

Animated love stories that use the medium's visual expressiveness to externalize the feeling of falling in love — heightened color, dreamlike imagery, and visual metaphors for emotional states.

Your NameHowl's Moving CastleUp (first 10 minutes)
75-85 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Crime Animation

Animated crime stories that use the medium's stylistic range to create gritty underworlds, stylized violence, and atmospheric noir impossible to achieve in live-action without massive budgets.

Batman: Mask of the PhantasmWaltz with BashirCowboy Bebop
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Mystery Animation

Animated mystery narratives that use visual control to hide clues in plain sight, create unreliable perspectives, and design mystery worlds where everything is a potential clue.

Scooby-Doo (various)Monster HouseDetective Conan
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Fantasy Animation

Animated fantasy that builds entire magical worlds with unlimited visual imagination — where the only constraint on spectacle and wonder is the clarity of the writing.

Spirited AwayHow to Train Your DragonThe Legend of Korra
70-85 pages (feature), 11-22 pages (TV)

Western Animation

Animated westerns that use the medium to create hyper-stylized frontier landscapes, exaggerated gunplay, and mythic character designs impossible in live-action.

RangoAn American Tail: Fievel Goes WestHome on the Range
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

War Animation

Animated war narratives that use the medium to convey the scale, chaos, and emotional devastation of combat in ways that range from realistic to expressionistic and abstract.

Waltz with BashirGrave of the FirefliesThe Wind Rises
75-90 pages (feature), 11-22 pages (TV)

Musical Animation

Animated musicals where the limitless visual canvas transforms musical numbers into spectacular set pieces with dancing environments, impossible choreography, and songs that reshape reality.

FrozenMoanaEncanto
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Biographical Animation

Animated biographies that use the medium's visual freedom to dramatize real lives with stylistic choices that live-action can't match — depicting memories, emotions, and historical contexts through artistic interpretation.

PersepolisWaltz with BashirLoving Vincent
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Historical Animation

Animated historical narratives that bring past eras to life through artistic rendering, making history visually accessible and emotionally engaging for audiences of all ages.

The Prince of EgyptMulanAnastasia
75-85 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Noir Animation

Animated noir that uses the medium's total visual control to create the most purely atmospheric noir possible — perfect shadows, precise lighting, and character designs dripping with style.

Batman: The Animated SeriesSin City (animated influence)Cowboy Bebop
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Supernatural Animation

Animated supernatural narratives that exploit the medium's ability to seamlessly blend the natural and the otherworldly, creating worlds where ghosts, spirits, and impossible phenomena feel visually organic.

Spirited AwayCocoCorpse Bride
75-90 pages (feature), 11-22 pages (TV)

Family Animation

Animated family entertainment that must delight children, engage adults, and tell universal stories through characters and worlds that animation uniquely brings to life.

Toy StoryInside OutFinding Nemo
75-85 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Sports Animation

Animated sports stories that use the medium's visual dynamism to create hyper-kinetic athletic sequences, exaggerated physicality, and visually spectacular competition.

Haikyuu!!Slam DunkMegalo Box
75-90 pages (feature), 22 pages (TV)

Political Animation

Animated political narratives that use satire, allegory, and visual metaphor to comment on power, governance, and social systems with the freedom that animation uniquely provides.

Animal Farm (1954)South ParkRick and Morty

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