AN225: 2-D Animation: Great Posts to Study for This Week!

Monday, February 4, 2019

This week's topics: The Animation Production Pipeline and FX Animation!

Animation Production Pipeline:

Preproduction

Story Outline or Script
Thumbnails
Character and Environment Designs
When story is approved: Figuring out your production budget. (Time and resources needed to create it)
Storyboards
Animatics
Layout
Sheet Timing
Scratch Tracks (Sound effects and Voice Work can be done early to get a better feel for the content)
Hero Shots (Single images showing how the final version of the film should look.
Scheduling: Figuring out a date to complete your film and the small milestones needed within.

Production

Key Animation
Breakdown Frames Creation
Inbetween Animation
Cleanup (Lineart)
Color Art and Painting
Painting Backgrounds
FX animation
Title or Credit Animation (if you are designing the beginning and end cards of your film)
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Post Production

Audio (Sound Effects and Voice Work if not done already
Editing (Taking your animated shots and putting them together in a program like premiere)
Special FX: any additional effects that needs to be added to your content.
Title Sequence and Credits Sequence Animation and Compositing
Mastering (Balancing audio levels)
Producing a final cut ( Editing everything together into a final mix for people to see.)
Distribution (exporting your content to all file formats and distributing it via dvds blu ray discs, the web, etc.

AN225: 2-D Animation