6. • Treatment
• •In Hollywood jargon, a “treatment” is a
screenplay or teleplay story outline formatted
as if it were a short story.
• •Treatments can be as brief as one paragraph,
or as long as two pages. It serves as the plot
line of your animated series script.
• •Use a three-act structure: beginning, middle,
and end.
12. • Set and background design
• •Set and background design of “Hold the
Line”
13. • Storyboard
• "A picture is worth a thousand words."
• •Storyboard is an illustrated view, like a comic
book, of how the producer or director
envisions the final edited version of a
production to look.
15. • Storyboard
• •It entails telling a story with a number of
sequential images with consideration for
scene detail, character continuity, camera
angles, special effects,etc.
• http://hometown.aol.com/greghigh6/storybo
ard_design.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/educ
ation/digkids/lessons/storyboards.html
16.
17. • Animatics
• •Animatics are pre-visualizationor video
storyboardswith minimal moving visual, with
or without audio and edited to look like the
final product.
• •They are a way to see the final project in
motion before going through the expense of
actual shooting or production.
18. • Production
• •Modelling -
• –Character
• •Rigged and surfaced models and propswith
test animationcomplete
• –Set and background
• –Props
• •Textured and surfaced environments
19. • Production
• •Lighting
• –Lights and shadows
• –Optical effects
• •Texturing and mapping
• –Texture collecting
• –Map editing
23. • Lesson Summary
• •The animation process is a tedious process
• •Production planning and timeline is crucial to
ensure smooth production output
24. • Further Reading
• •http://www.producinganimation.com/
• –Dowlatabadi, Zahra and Winder,Catherine.
(2003) Producing Animation. Focal Press
• –Laybourne, Kit and Canemaker, John (1998)
The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to
Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to
Sound Cartoons to 3-D Animation. Three
Rivers Press; Rev Sub edition
25.
26. • Further ReadingHow the experts did it!
• •2D -www.justdisney.com/animation/animation.html
• •3D -www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html
• •http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/how-scooby-works3.htm
• •Indie 3D -http://www.comet-cartoons.com/3ddocs/animprocess/
• •Forensic 3D-
http://www.expertlaw.com/library/animation/forensic_multimedia.html
• •http://www.expertvillage.com/videos/stop-animation-process.htm
• •Roto -
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/20060707_SCANNER_A
UDIOSS/blocker.html
• •HK based CG -http://www.patlau.com/film.html
• •Minotaur –Narnia http://movies.ign.com/articles/669/669397p1.html
• •ArchViz rendering -http://3d-renderings.archiform3d.com/3d-rendering-
process-scene.htm
