3D ANIMATION WORLD

Fresh from winning a $250,000 grant from Epic Games, the Godot development team has released its latest showreels, showcasing games created with the open-source engine.

Step 1: Final Edit!
Replace your animatic with the final composited renders into
the timeline in Avid.
Step 2:Sound FX and Foley
Add layers of background sound effects.
Step 3: Music Scoring
Have a composer write a score or find royaltyfree
music to accompany your animation.
Step 4: Sound Mixing
Combine your Sound FX layers and your music
scoring, balanced and mixed for screen.
Step 5: Titles, Credits, and Combined Picture
with Sound.
Add in your cast and crew to your locked picture
and sound inside of Avid DS or Symphony.
Step 6: Final Output to Tape
After everything has been looked over and
polished, output your final project to Blu-Ray. Be
sure to burn extra copies for your cast and crew!

Step 1: Camera Blocking
Moving Camera Moments are pre-planned to ensure minimal
animation time. “If itʼs not in the shot, why worry about it”.
Step 2: Animatic Animation Blocking
The characters are very roughly animated in the scene using
solid objects representations to accurately time and plot the
shots. An extremely low res preview is exported from the
computer for use in the animatic.
Step 3: Animatic Polishing
The low res previews are edited together and placed back into the animatic to establish the
precise timing of each shot for use in animation.
Step 4: Animation and Motion Capture
Animate the characters in the scene and/or motion
capture the skeletons to be placed back into the characters.
This stage can involved multiple rounds of animating, and
then going back and fixing and cleaning up the motion in the
shot inserted all the objects needed in the scene. This is the
longest step in the production process and may involve
multiple sessions of motion capture and clean-up to achieve
the desired results.
Step 4.5: Lighting and Render tests
Lighting and Render tests can be done WHILE animating your scenes or can be done
afterwards depending on the amount of scenes and the changing locations. If done after the
animation process, the focus on lighting can be done by a dedicated team member rather
than the animator. The render tests may consist of multiple
frames of animation to test motion blur and other aspects of
motion that need to be set.
Step 5: Full Resolution Rendering
Once the animation is complete and every shot has been
planned out, the scenes are exported one at a time and sent
to the render farm manager for distribution and output to the
render nodes. The render farm will export Targa sequences.
Step 6: Visual Effects and Compositing.
The rendered Targa sequences are then brought back into After effects or Autodesk Flame
for additional compositing and additional 2d effects onto the animation. If a character was
matted against a blank background to save time while rendering, this stage is where the shots
are brought together for the final image output.

Creating the Digital Elements of your "lm.
Step 1:Vocal Tracks
Record and Process the lines in your animation first! This can be done
using Pro Tools in a VO booth.
Step 2: Story Reel and 2d Animatic
Turn your storyboards into a video version with your vocal tracks in
place through the use of Avid Media Composer.
Step 3: Modeling
! Model your Characters, Environments, and
! Objects in Maya.
Step 4: Materials and Textures
! Apply the materials and textures to your models
! in Maya.
Step 5: Character Rigging
! Rig your Characters based on your animation
! preference or mocap parameters in Maya. (Test
! Character RIG with mocap data BEFORE you
! spend the time in rigging your model)
Step 6: Motion Capture Tests or Animation Tests.
! Make sure you know that the mocap data will work with your !characters or you will have
problems further into production. The Mocap Blade will output .vsk or other formats for input into your
character.
Step 7: Pre-Visualize FULL renders with each of
your environments.
If you do not test your characters fully rendered at
resolution specs (HD) and have to correct problems,
itʼs best to do it before animating multiple scenes. The
most compatible format is Targa sequences.
Step 8: Data Management Techniques
Where are your animation files going to save, where are your render files going to save. How much
space will you need?