- Traditional animation, otherwise known as cell animation can be a very time consuming and somewhat tedious art form. The result can be very beautiful and full of life, but the viewer can easily not appreciate the vast amount of work, effort and time that is usually put into such projects (much like with other things.) With the numerous amounts of animated features as well as other media sometimes it’s taken as things only for young audiences when it can be for all.
- The animation in films/cartoons can contain thousands of frames, which are drawn by hand. They often start off as storyboards to plan the action of the feature. After the storyboard is agreed upon and finalized, all sounds/score/vocals to be used in the feature are created and recorded.
- Story reels are created in combination of the sounds and the finalized storyboard to further plan timing. If issues occur editing of the storyboard and or soundtrack can be done. Character model sheet are created next, to ensure consistency with animating of characters and props. With character designing in the works, landscapes and background designing is also worked on. The theme and scheme of colors are decided and determined before final backgrounds are created with decided media (such as paint or digital media.) After all planning is done, there’s still the animating that has to be done. The vast amount of planning helps avoid wasted time and money on hand drawn animation that could possibly not be used in the final film.
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