Movie Animation
· Mention the steps to produce a movie animation.
I know that they all came from Computer Generated Images which will include all hi-tech graphical software to act.
1. An employee or some other people get an idea of a story. He or she will make presentation to some member of development group, to see whether it will believed by the audience and it has possibilities.
2. The idea then will be short documented to summarize it and making development from other same ideas to be mixed and balanced.
3. The document then will translated into storyboard. Storyboard is a hand-drawing comic book version of the movie, and it will be the blue print for the animation action and dialog.
4. Then, temporary scratch voice is dubbed into the storyboard reels.
5. The reel is made; it is a videotape that allows cleans up storyboard sequence to stand alone.
6. The art department will dress the story by creating look and feel for the story and character based on the documented guide, storyboard, brainstorming and their creative ideas.
7. The character, sets and properties are either sculpted by hand or then scanned in 3-dimensional or modeled in 3-D directly.
8. Dressed the set. Make a really-look environmental set and property such as chair, tables, tress etc.
9. Translate the story into 3-dimensional scene, choreograph the character in set with virtual camera and capture the feel and emotion.
10. Using each of their unique software, they animated the shots.
11. The sets and shaded and lighting are made by computer aid.
12. Render the data. This is the step where all: shoot, set, color, character etc translated into single frame of film. Somehow it will need huge process and really rely on software capability to ensure the quality of rendered product. Not to mention the hours to have it finish.
13. Some final touched are added including musical and sound effects.
There are the steps, hope you enjoy it, whether you just an animation movie freak or someone who really want to make or involve in animation movie industry.
· Why is Wallace and Gromit a good example of these productions?
Because these movies about Wallace and Gromit started over 30 years ago, is one of the oldest movie animation works.
· What other works do you know about animations?