Notes from Monday, Nov 12

• Animating Small Sequences
• Storyboarding
• Animation Production Practices (Portfolios)
• Goal: Selecting Stories and Optimizing Storytelling
• We Divide the Animation Process into a PIPELINE:
• Our Animation Pipeline
• Pre-Production
• Thumbnails
• Sketches
• Storyboards
• Animatics
• Layouts
• Animation Production
• Post Production
• Sound Fx
• Compositing
• About Storyboards:
• think of them “as a sample of key drawings”
• together, they create a sketch of your animation
• we are able to see the film before the film is created!
• Questions to Ask Yourself When Developing A Story:
• Does the story resolve in an interesting way? 
• Does the story make sense to others? 
• Does the story’s content show a genuine struggle or problem to solve? Does it get resolved?
• What is the most interesting scenario to you? How can you make it more interesting?

Animation Preproduction Development:

• This does not have to be a complicated process.
• Thumbnails are selected and redrawn with respects to storytelling. This creates our STORYBOARDS.
• Our storyboards are set to time in a video-editing program. This creates our ANIMATIC.
• Our Animatic serves as a map for the final film. We develop LAYOUTS by creating drawings that show where and what the final artwork should look like. (and where the camera should go)
• From there, all the hard work is figured out, and we spend the rest of our time ANIMATING our idea!

 STORYBOARDING AND FILM NOTATION:

• Time Code:   Numbers that represent the current “run time” of your film.  (Ex:  00:00:01.12 = 1 second, and 12 frames.)
• TOON BOOM STORYBOARD HOTKEYS:

HOMEWORK:  Continue fleshing out your animatic!