Animation Film Production Pipeline By : animationgossips.com (Jayant Sharma)

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ANIMATION AND FILM LANGUAGE

Topic : Production Pipeline of Animation

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What is the production pipeline?

Logical organization of the steps required to produce an animated feature film

Overlaps with the company organizational structure– departments, budgets



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Pipeline Organization Every company has its own pipeline Every movie changes the pipeline

– requirements are changing

– save money

– increase the quality of the movie



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Pipeline Organization Many Departments



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Pipeline Organization Pre-Production



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Pipeline Organization Characters and Sets



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Pipeline Organization Movement



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Pipeline Organization Post-Production



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Stage 1: In stage 1 we have to develop a concept

or idea. And from that concept or idea we collect

more information related to it and start developing a story for our Animation Film/Clip.



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Stage 2: PRE-PRODUCTION In Stage 2 we breakup our story in

multiple scripts.

STORY

SCRIPT - 1

SCRIPT - 2

SCRIPT - n



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Stage 2: PRE-PRODUCTION Then we prepare thumbnails of each

scripts separately.

STORY

SCRIPT - 1

SCRIPT - 2

SCRIPT - n

THUMBNAIL - 1

THUMBNAIL - 2

THUMBNAIL - n



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Stage 2: PRE-PRODUCTION Next Step is to prepare following from

each thumbnails:

Thumbnails

Story Boarding

Animatics

Character Designing

BG’s(Backgrounds)

Concept Art



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Character Designing After story come characters Consists mostly of drawings, or sculptures

body poses facial expressions key features from multiple points of view



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Character Designing

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Story Boarding The film in outline form

specify the key scenes specify the camera moves and edits specify character gross motion

Typically paper and pencil sketches on individual Sheets taped on a wall



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Story Boarding



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Stage 3: PRODUCTION In this stage now we are going to animate our

movie.

AnimateCharacter Animation



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Stage 3: PRODUCTION

Create geometric models of environment, props, characters by keep in mind the ultimate purpose of the model – feature film, game, etc.

Animate

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Stage 3: PRODUCTION

Character Animation

Set up internal skeleton and animation handles appropriately for that character’s behaviors.



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Stage 4: POST-PRODUCTION This is last stage for Animation

movie/clip where we cover following:

Compositing Rendering

Sound/Music Designing



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Stage 4: POST-PRODUCTION

Frames can take hours to render. 1800 frames for a single minute of

animation. Pixar has a HUGE render farm.

Rendering



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Stage 4: POST-PRODUCTION

Sound and Music must have to match your video theme and Character Voices have to match your characters.

Sound/Music Designing



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ThanksJayant SharmaFor more Info :

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ThanksJayant SharmaFor more Info :

http://www.animationgossips.com





Animation Film Production Pipeline By : animationgossips.com (Jayant Sharma)

Education

pipeline requirements

logical organization

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characters behaviors

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character voices

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