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| Creating animation |
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| Animation creation consists of idea development, pre-production, production, and post-production. |
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| In idea development, the characters and story for the film, ad or other creative are created and a go-ahead taken on the same. |
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| In pre-production, the idea is converted into layouts. The script is written and finalised, characters are designed, a storyboard is created and layouts are developed. Cost-wise, this phase is extremely important since a single mistake here can put the entire project over-budget. |
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Pre-production for 2D animation |
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| 1. Scriptwriting |
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2. Storyboarding |
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3. Character development |
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| 4. Backgrounds |
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5. Layout designing |
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6. Animatics |
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| 7. Voice |
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Production for 2D animation |
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| In this stage, we get to see the actual results of the treatment given to the story as well as its visualisation. |
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| A large volume of production work is outsourced by overseas clients to Indian studios and the majority
of Indian animation professionals are involved in production-related activities. |
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| 1. Animation |
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2.In-betweening* |
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3. Scanning |
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| 4. Compositing* |
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5. Background preparation |
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6. Colouring |
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| * In-betweening: Tweening (short for in-betweening) is the creation of intermediate frames between two main images
to give the appearance that the first image flows smoothly into the second one. |
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* Compositing: Images from different sources, e.g. real-world video, digitised film, synthetic 3D images,
2D animations, painted backdrops, still photos and text, are combined to create a finished frame of animation. |
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| Final sound recordings, colour editing, testing and special sound effects
are all added at the post-production stage. The animation created during production is compared
against the goals set down in pre-production to make sure everything has gone as per plan. |
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| Some of the more common activities in 2D & 3D post-production are: |
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| 1. Editing |
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2.Special effects (SFX) |
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3. Colour correction* |
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| 4. Compositing |
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5. Voice & music editing |
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6. Rendering* |
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| *Colour correction: Undesirable cast or tint is removed from a colour image. |
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| *Rendering: Giving final touches to an animation scene, in which the (vector)
data is converted to the raster image or animation. |
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