Archive for June, 2008
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in 3d animation, Animation Film Process | No Comments
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in 2d animation, Animation Film Process | 1 Comment
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in Animation Mediums, Stop-motion Animation | No Comments
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in 2d animation, 3d animation, Animation Mediums | No Comments
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in 2d animation, 3d animation, Forms of Animation | No Comments
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in Animation Basics | No Comments
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in Animation Basics | No Comments
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 [...]
June 21st, 2008 | Posted in Animation Basics | No Comments