lucasdegani: Coffee Break - Animation Proccess

Coffee Break - Animation Proccess

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Hello! Long time...

After half class achieved, this post will be a little different. Is not about my exercises or animation theory, but animation in general. Many friends don't even know what I do and what is needed for a final product in the movies or series, commercials, or their video games, then this post is directed to it.

Animation consists briefly of imaging and representanting action. You will represent a sequence of events! It all depends on who and how you want to tell the story. Norman McLaren once said "how it moves is more important than what moves". The basic ingredient is the storytelling, design and how it will move. This means: you need to have a good solution in your story with a beginning, middle and end; a nice design that makes sense to relate a scenario X with characters Y and Z, with good color palette and all of this can talk among themselves.
Sounds easy when you think of doing but is not. The making of animated film requires a large volume of work and technical processes of some complexity.

Below, a simple process that I will talk about is the 3d animation.

1: Everything start with an idea. So work this idea until it's polished, solid and then you can move to drawing!

2: Here you, as a filmmaker, will use drawings to develop the action of the film. Even scrawled drawing, transmit emotion and the action of your story!

3: Record the voices of your film so we can join with the designs of their actions in your storyboard! This will make us able to see what works and what doesn't.

4: Here you will make the necessary cuts and adjustments, give the final timing or your animation and make the X-Sheet, which is nothing but a simple and efficient form where animators write down the action and dialogue for a scene or shot. This helps in accurately and not run from what was proposed.

5: Animators start to animate!

6: Here the characters are finalized with their textures, colors and everything else. The scenarios will also be finalized.

7: You have your completed picture on disk with sound elements to dubbing! Backup it!

8: Synched and laid everything digitally. We are almost there!

9: Put your sound and picture on tape, or other media.

10: Go to film recorder to make film copies and distribute it to everywhere!

There are several ways to obtain an animation. This is only one, guys...
For a good final result, you literally need to give your soul for it. The ingredients previously mentioned you will get in your routine and a looot of studying while there is love for what you do. Pete Docter once said "If you love what you do, it's not really 'work' anyway."

Also, for better understanding, watch this amazing shortfilm that despicts the process of a animation film. From beginning to the end.