ANATOMY OF A SCENE 01 – COMPOSITING
How do I best put this…. Producing Animation is hard. Really hard. A tremendous amount of time, talent, and resources go in to each frame of Atomic Robo: Last Stop. Having said that, it’s also a blast! We get to draw AND talk about nerdy stuff all day.
This week the team convinced me to post a small snippet of the animation as it exists right now. So here’s the process to get to the video. Those of you with short attention spans might want to tune out about now…
I sit down with my creative team, Jeff McComsey and Dominic Vivona. And we take a look at our script written by Brian Clevinger and your’s truly.
Step 01: From discussions on the script, I tell the guys where I would like our “camera” placed. On of the things that’s special about the Fictory Method, is that we treat animation like live action when preparing a shot.
Step 02: Jacked up on coffee, Jeff creates a storyboard based on our discussion. From here I approve the shot or we go back to the drawing board (literally) until it’s up to snuff.
Step 03: I take the completed board and create an animatic. The animatic is cut to the exact timing and framing for the shot.
Step 04: Dom and I start war gaming the actual animation, acting out the scene and roughing the animation. Jeff and I discuss background color feel and scale, he gets to work.
Step 05: Jeff creates the finished pencil and we hand over Dom’s key frame animation to our tweeners (in between animators). In the meantime I create a rough composite with the resources available.
Step 06: Tweens are finished, animation is approved and colored, and backgrounds renders are completed.
Step 07: I take everything, bring it into the computer and put the stank-on-it. After fiddling with some knobs and pressing my computer’s animate button, the rough composite is dropped into our final film timeline.
Whew, thanks for bearing with me through all that. That’s just a small part of the processes we go through to bring you a sweet ass animation. Please enjoy a few seconds of the posted clip! Keep in mind this is NOT a finished shot. Just a rough composite.
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Lookin’ grood Joseph!
WOW . . . great looking start . . . love the camera shakes!
MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!