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2D Animation Process: A Look at The Main Stages

The 2D animation process involves 7 main stages: 1. Developing ideas and story outlines. Ideas can come from observations of the natural world or fantasy. 2. Writing a script that outlines the story scene-by-scene, including characters, actions, dialogue and camera angles. 3. Creating a storyboard that visually maps out each scene frame-by-frame along with notes on elements like dialogue and sound effects. 4. Recording a soundtrack of music, sound effects and voice actors. 5. Developing animatics to refine the timing of storyboard scenes. 6. Animating the scenes using software. 7. Editing and publishing the finished animated clips.

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2D Animation Process: A Look at The Main Stages

The 2D animation process involves 7 main stages: 1. Developing ideas and story outlines. Ideas can come from observations of the natural world or fantasy. 2. Writing a script that outlines the story scene-by-scene, including characters, actions, dialogue and camera angles. 3. Creating a storyboard that visually maps out each scene frame-by-frame along with notes on elements like dialogue and sound effects. 4. Recording a soundtrack of music, sound effects and voice actors. 5. Developing animatics to refine the timing of storyboard scenes. 6. Animating the scenes using software. 7. Editing and publishing the finished animated clips.

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2D Animation Process

A 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?
….
• 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

Source of image: http://projectorfilms.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html


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.
Thank you

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