Week 2

Animation Production Process 

Week 2 was rather fun too because I get to learn more about the process of animation.

Animation production process can be generally divided into 3 stages which are outlined as follows:

•          Pre-Production
•          Production
•          Post-Production

This is what basically happens in the Pre-Production stage:

•   Concept and Planning
•   Generate Ideas
•  Story development

o   Develop the plot and characters

o   Adapt to medium

•       Visual development

o   Visual direction and style

•        Character design

o   The look of characters

o   Props by assistant designers

•          Writing the script
•          Prepare storyboards
•          Record dialog
•          Rough sketches
•          Produce animatic

Animatic

In animation and special effects work, the storyboarding stage may be followed by simplified mock-ups called "animatics" to give a better idea of how the scene will look and feel with motion and timing. At its simplest, an animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence. More commonly, a rough dialogue and/or rough sound track is added to the sequence of still images (usually taken from a storyboard) to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together

The next stage is the Production stage and it will be outlined as follows:

·         Creating Art

o   Character development (create character sheets, pose sheets, facial expression sheets)

o   Work on backgrounds, sets, props

o   Creating Animation

o   Record Sound/Music

The final stage is the Post-Production stage and it encompasses the following:

• Clean up
• Editing
• Add Special/Visual effects
• Final testing
• Presentations