Animation Part3D3D animation process

• Learning Objective

• •3D Animation process and flow

• 3 Stages of production

• •Pre-production

• •Production

• •Post-production

• Pre-production• •Ideation, treatment and script• •Finalized art direction • •Character and prop designs • •Set and background designs • •The voice track • •The storyboard • •The story reel/animatic/leica reel• •production member• •budget and timeline

• Ideation

• •Title

• •Target audience

• •Duration

• •Output format

• •Concept

• •Misc

• Treatment• •In Hollywood jargon, a “treatment” is a

screenplay or teleplay story outline formatted as if it were a short story.

• •Treatments can be as brief as one paragraph, or as long as two pages. It serves as the plot line of your animated series script.

• •Use a three-act structure: beginning, middle, and end.

• Script notation• •VO voice over• •OSoff screen• •POVpoint of view• •EXTexterior• •INT interior

• http://breakingin.net/format_tutorial.htm• http://www.sleepawaycampfilms.com/scripts.htm• http://www.script-o-rama.com/• http://www.scriptnurse.com/wcms/index.php?formatrules

• Art Direction

• •Realism vs Stylization

• •Minimalism vs Complexity

Character Development

Character line up

• Props designhttp://www.productionig.com/contents/work

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• Set and background design

• •Set and background design of “Hold the Line”

• Storyboard

• "A picture is worth a thousand words."

• •Storyboard is an illustrated view, like a comic book, of how the producer or director envisions the final edited version of a production to look.

Storyboard notations

• Storyboard

• •It entails telling a story with a number of sequential images with consideration for scene detail, character continuity, camera angles, special effects,etc.

• http://hometown.aol.com/greghigh6/storyboard_design.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/storyboards.html

• Animatics

• •Animatics are pre-visualizationor video storyboardswith minimal moving visual, with or without audio and edited to look like the final product.

• •They are a way to see the final project in motion before going through the expense of actual shooting or production.

• Production• •Modelling -• –Character• •Rigged and surfaced models and propswith

test animationcomplete• –Set and background• –Props• •Textured and surfaced environments

• Production

• •Lighting

• –Lights and shadows

• –Optical effects

• •Texturing and mapping

• –Texture collecting

• –Map editing

• Production

• •Animation

• –Rough animation

• –Character animation

• –Facial animation

• –Cleanup animation

• –Final animation

• Production

• –Dynamics animation

• •Camera and rendering setup

• –Camera setup

• •Rendering

• –Preview rendered images

• Post-Production• –Compositing• –Sound editing• •Music• •Sound effect• •Ambience• •dialogue• –Video editing• •Visual adjustments • •Visual effects • http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/casestudies/5811.ht

ml• **Proceed to movie

• Lesson Summary

• •The animation process is a tedious process

• •Production planning and timeline is crucial to ensure smooth production output

• Further Reading• •http://www.producinganimation.com/• –Dowlatabadi, Zahra and Winder,Catherine.

(2003) Producing Animation. Focal Press• –Laybourne, Kit and Canemaker, John (1998)

The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3-D Animation. Three Rivers Press; Rev Sub edition

• Further ReadingHow the experts did it!• •2D -www.justdisney.com/animation/animation.html• •3D -www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html• •http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/how-scooby-works3.htm• •Indie 3D -http://www.comet-cartoons.com/3ddocs/animprocess/• •Forensic 3D-

http://www.expertlaw.com/library/animation/forensic_multimedia.html• •http://www.expertvillage.com/videos/stop-animation-process.htm• •Roto -

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/20060707_SCANNER_AUDIOSS/blocker.html

• •HK based CG -http://www.patlau.com/film.html• •Minotaur –Narnia http://movies.ign.com/articles/669/669397p1.html• •ArchViz rendering -http://3d-renderings.archiform3d.com/3d-rendering-

process-scene.htm