Archive for June, 2008

Process of making a 3D animation film

Now that I’ve written about the steps involved in making a 2D animation film lets look at what processes are involved in making a 3D animation film.
Well the initial steps are same as that of a 2D film namely – Story/Concept, Scripting, Character and Environment Design, Storyboarding, Voice Recording and Animatics.
You can refer about it [...]

2D Animation Film Making

Lets look at the steps involved in making a 2D animation film

The Concept / Story – The basic idea of the film and the whole story. The strength of the film is its foundation and in this case its the story. If the story is weak then no amount of jazz is going to work [...]

Types of Stop-motion animation

There are different types of Stop-motion animation

Clay animation – Clay models are used as objects to be animated. A light aluminum wire and thermocole armature/skeleton is first made upon which the colored clay is coated. Some models also have miniature clothes stitched for them while others mite have the clothes itself made of clay. A [...]

Types of animation mediums

Animation can be basically 2D or 3D but when we use different mediums we get different types of animations. Lets have a look at them.

Traditional 2D Animation on Cells– As I’ve told before it is a type of animation where each frame is hand-drawn, right from the character to the props, the environment and also [...]

Forms of Animation

Hi… Now that you know what Animation is and how it began lets look at the types of animations. It can be broadly classified into two categories 2-Dimensional or 2D and 3-Dimensional or 3D. People generally confuse the type of animation with the medium used for example clay, cut-outs etc. but we shall come [...]

Father of Animation

No one really knows who is the father of animation. Some say its Georges Méliès who experimented a lot to add special effects to his films and he accidentally discovered the stop-motion animation technique where he would stop the camera and ask the actors to freeze and then replace some actors or make some of [...]

Animation Explained Further

The concept of Persistence of Vision was taken to a new level when people decided to experiment more and more with it; thus many instruments were developed on similar lines for eg. the Phenakistoscope, the Zoetrope, the Praxinoscope; and then came in the Flipbooks which I’m pretty sure most of you must have [...]

What is Animation? - Part I

Hi I’m Zeee and we would not go into the details of me; cuz we are here to talk animation (as the blog name suggests). Hmmm… So.. after watching all the Tom n Jerry episodes, the Shrek sequels, the Dragonball Z series etc. etc. I’m sure most of you are aware of what animation is [...]