Filmmaking production elements

Filmmaking production elements

3D computer animation production

• Introduction to computer animation

• General animation production

• Fundamentals of filmmaking
  • Art department
  • Wikipedia: Art pipeline
  • Editing
  • Layout and design
  • Performance
  • Production design
  • Screenwriting
  • Staging
  • Storytelling
  • Visual language

• Fundamentals of computer animation

• Computer animation exercises

• 3D animation production is incrementally built in stages, often compartmentalized into CGI departments
  1. Storyboards
  2. Modelling
  3. Rigging
  4. Staging
  5. Previsualization
  6. Animation
  7. Dynamic simulations
  8. Textures
  9. Lighting
  10. Rendering
  11. Post production (see below)
  • See also, Wikipedia: Art pipeline

Audio production

• Audio engineering
• Audio performances
• Sound editing
• Sound effects
• Sound engineering
• Sound foley
• Sound recording

Classical animation production

• Introduction to classical animation
  • Wikipedia: Traditional animation

• General animation production

• Fundamentals of filmmaking
  • Art department
  • Wikipedia: Art pipeline
  • Editing
  • Layout and design
  • Performance
  • Production design
  • Screenwriting
  • Staging
  • Storytelling
  • Visual language

Superior to the 12 principles:
21 Foundations of Animation (9:41)
01 Appeal
02 Strong Design
03 Staging
04 Acting & Pantomime
05 Keys & Breakdowns
06 Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
07 Thumbnails
08 Timing, Spacing & Easing
09 Squash & Stretch
10 Arcs
11 Primary & Secondary Action
12 Silhouette
13 Line of Action & Reversals
14 Anticipation, Overshoot & Settle
15 Opposing Action
16 Counterpose
17 Leading Action
18 Breaking Joints
19 Overlap & Follow Through
20 Accents
21 Exaggeration
clearly presented by Angry ANIMATOR, 2019-01-15.

• Fundamentals of classical animation
  • Wikipedia: Twelve basic principles of animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life.
    1. Wikipedia: Squash and stretch
    2. Wikipedia: Anticipation
    3. Wikipedia: Staging
    4. Wikipedia: Straight ahead action and pose to pose
       • Wikipedia: Straight ahead animation
       • Wikipedia: Pose to pose animation
         • Wikipedia: Key frame
         • Wikipedia: Inbetweening

         + Pushing through or bounce back.

    5. Wikipedia: Follow through and overlapping action

       + Successive breaking of joints.

       + Whip.

    6. Wikipedia: Slow in and slow out
    7. Wikipedia: Arc
    8. Wikipedia: Secondary action
    9. Wikipedia: Timing
    10. Wikipedia: Exaggeration
    11. Wikipedia: Solid drawing

        + Physics.

    12. Wikipedia: Appeal
  • Superior to the 12 principles, on YouTube: 21 Foundations of Animation (9:41) ~ Angry ANIMATOR, 2019-01-15.
    • AngryAnimator.com/word/2022/11/18/what-courses-to-watch

Mouth shape chart featuring common phonemes and visemes.

A page from Cartoon Animation (1994) by Preston Blair, the best book for animation students.

• Wikipedia: Phonemes and visemes
• Wikipedia: Viseme

• Classical animation exercises

• Character design
  • Model sheets
• Illustration
• Storyboards
• Layout
• Backgrounds
• Animatics
• Key animation
• Inbetweening
• Pencil tests
• Scanning
• Inking
• Painting

Commercial production

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Also: Public service announcements

Documentary production

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Event video production

coming soon

ie. Wedding videos

Feature film movie production

coming soon

General animation production

Like any other industry, animation is a business.

• Animation business
• Animation producers
• Animation resources
• Grant writing
• Publishing and distribution
  • Copyrights and copylefts
• Screenwriting
• Wikipedia: Art pipeline

  Like any other production, a good pipeline is necessary.

• Fundamentals of filmmaking

Industrial video production

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Music video production

coming soon

Podcast production

coming soon

Post production

• Colour timing
• Compositing
• Compositing 2D
• Compositing 3D
• Editing
• Graphic design
• Video editing
• Visual effects

Short video production

coming soon