2D Animation ProcessA look at the main stages

1. Start with Ideas for your story

•Where will the idea come from?•What do we do once we have an idea?

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•Ideas can be found all around you...•Hidden world of sea creatures, insects,

plants, etc....Think about non-human characters, fantasy world, fairy tales,

•Your own perception of the world around you.

2. Write down your Story Outline•Write down an outline of the story - a sort

of road map clearly relating what is going to happen in your story

3. Write the Script of the story•Focus on what the characters are supposed to

do scene after scene• Include camera angles, action, dialogues etc

----•A script is broken down into definabel sections,

action content, character dialog, narration•Establish the number of scenes it should have, • the order of the scenes, what happens in the

scenes, what is said in the scenes, how one scene transitions to another.

4. Create the Storyboard•The Storyboard is the blueprint of your

animation project • It tells the story of an animation, frame by

frame in a visual format•Used to help filmmakers plan the beginning,

middle, and end of an animation and resemble comics in their imagery and text.

•Along with the visuals, it consists of notes on the dialogues, transitions, sound, effects, etc

E.g of a storyboard

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5. Sound Track

•Recording of audio track…•Completed cartoon soundtrack will

feature music, sound effects, and dialogue performed by voice actors

6. Creating Animatics

•Animatics are timed storyboards.•Using the still images from the

storyboard, an animatic•They are used in the pre-production

stages of animation•Communicates framing and important

rough actions of the shot•Used to check your scene timings

7. Start Animating

•Using Animation Software e.g Flash/Director

•Put it all together and build the scene that you'll be rendering.

Editing & Publishing•In the case of an animated movie, you can

edit your rendered clips in a video editing program and edit them

•When you have all your clips rendered, you can fire up a video editing program and edit them together. You can add any additional sounds you might want to use- music, other effects- or to replace the audio in the rendered files with higher-quality sound from the original audio files you made earlier.

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