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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...