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Creating the Animation

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Appropriate footage can then be selected form the log sheet for the animation. Visual and Audio Effects - offline edit for your animation apply variety of visual ad audio effects to create meaning in final edit Offline  vs  Online Editing Offline editing -  In short, it’s the stage where your raw footage is run through a program that transcodes it to have a lower resolution. You can then use that lower resolution footage to edit your film. Think of this as the storytelling stage. The editor focuses on the timing of the cuts, the pacing of story, and communicating emotions. Online editing -  better thought of as the finishing stage, is where you’ll reconnect those low-resolution files to the original, full quality footage. This is also when color correction, effects work, final titles, and audio are brought into the film. It’s at the end of the online stage that you export your completed film. Offline Edit So, as part of the animation process, you will need to create ...

Digital Animation - Planning Documentation

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Pre- Production Documentation: Interpretation of brief  purpose, medium, target audience, run time  developed storyline with focus on events/characters synopsis/treatment sketches - produce rough sketches of key characters and locations consider facial expressions and movements  storyboards -capture movements and facial expressions of your character sketches to generate storyboard scripts personnel and crew running order/gantt chart Narative: develop narrative not so basic such as props theory e.g. villain or hero Todorov theory equilibrium  2D/3D Backplates: The cop-out option would be to source these from Google. Produce your own – you could photograph them for 2D   backplates , or model them out of old shoeboxes, cotton reels and pipe cleaners, or use 3D programs such as Autodesk, 3ds Max or Maya You’ll need to think about lighting as well Risk Assessment - Risks or potential pitfalls associated with the project You could also lo...

Global Animation

Pixar: Characters: For example characters from Toy Story such as Sherrif Woody and Buzz Lightyear as well as Monsters Inc Mike Wazowzki and Sulley and boo as well as many more from incredibles and cars lightning Mcqueen and Mater. They are very bright and colourful and are usually creative and drawn with relatable human emotions they are often drawn to have real human features or emotions and then drawn to be imaginary but realistic. high expressive characters faces designs for example lightning McQueen faces animation team placed eyes in windshield other than headlights which allowed better communication of emotion a makes characters appear younger, warmer an more honest  high stress racing scenes with high stakes featuring face movements vibrant colours and rarely violent action which appeals to children's love for speed and motion Themes: Coming of age theme characters often have to face and embrace the difficult transition into new stages of life such as Toy Story. Friendship a...

Uses and Target Audiences

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Uses : television programmes children's animations gaming industry films different genres advertisements  anime manga  online and viral  Animation films and TV - traditionally animated content is associated with younger audiences tv programmes such as Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny and Disney films such as Snow White to Frozen have been largely pitched at children - fantasy world things happen that can't happen to humans reaches broader demographic for families nostalgia such as Pixar - UP, Wall-e and Monsters Inc  British Tv - puppetry and stop motion  animation was popular fro children in the uk during 1960 and 1970 a number of children's shows featured puppets and slow motion shows such as Magic Roundabout, Postman Pat and Bagpuss seemed to delight and terrify viewers in equal measure. The Simpsons and Family Guy Could be argued that Simpsons paved the way for shows such as family guy due to its adult content and jokes embedded throughout the series. Futurearma...

Digital Animation: Types and Techniques

Animation Techniques:  line drawing cel animation  hand drawn  rotoscoping  live action stop motion clay motion 2d/3d Line Drawing - hand drawn sketches and moves Fram by frame so shape evolves by every singe line you Draw commonly used contemporary adverts e.g. RedBull take on my by aha  used creating Adobe illustrator, flash and Lightbox  Cel Animation - celluloid animation many Disney films especially the early ones, were created this way. a cel is a celluloid sheet a transparent sheet onto which characters and scenery are drawn or painted traditionally by hand now digitally e.g. Simpsons, Snow White (took 3 years to produce over 750 artists completed more than 2 million sketches over 250,000 drawings) Hand Drawn - not common practice today, because it is so time consuming and can be achieved more easily through computer however Hayao Miyazakis film Spirited Away was entirely hand drawn. Live action - in which non-animated characters interact with animat...