Animation Process:

Animation Process:

1) Idea, brief, treatment and production plannning:

This is the pre-production phase. The idea has to get commissioned with a brief. Then a written treatment is made to sell the product. Then a script is written with an outline budget. 

2) Concept Design: 

Comcept design will often start during the pre-production phase. This is the first stage of the design. Preliminary work is carried out to illustrate both the narrative and possible visual treatment of the project.

3) Storyboarding: The director of the project will work closely with the storyboard artist to visualise the script that tells the story. The storyboard illustrates the narrative and composes the shots of the film. 

4) Production Design:

The production designer will develop the style of the production and produce the final designs for both the characters and the environments. 

5) recording the dialogue: 

The producer and director will choose the voices and the director will supervise the recording session. This is usually attended by the editor. 

6) Building Models: 

From the agreed designs, the modellers will translate the drawings and start to build the CG models of the characters and settings.

7) Layout and Animatics:

The first part is done with the story reel or an animatic. In stop frame it is likely to become the working reel and there will be no layouts.

8) Animation: The animation starts when the layouts have been approved. Also the models, voice track and timings have to be agreed. The director of animation will assign scenes to animators who will produce the images.

9) Backgrounds: The final colour backgrounds can be produced from the approved layouts. They reflect the production designs and are supervised by the art director.

10) Lighting: Lighting is s very important stage of CG. It is dictating the final colour and atmosphere of each shot. 

11) Post Production: During the post production phase music will be recorded with sound effects finalised. The digital picture is combined with the soundtrack as an edit master and can then be output either at broadcast standard or onto film.