Animation - Learning how to do Animatics

Greeting

Monday 24th August 2020

Today learning storyboard pro for our 30 second animation

Animatics are more about:

Timing

Sound

- Dialogues

- Sound Effects

- Music

Camera moves - uses of effects

Character positioning

Clear story telling - visually clear what is the story.

Notes to make a good animatic

• Not clean line and coloured 
• Where is lighting shown from?
• Simple shapes
• Background gray line
• Main things (ie main characters or items) black line

Thumbnail of 30 (ish) second story

Music (during the flashback fire story) from - https://snapmuse.com/track/in-the-shade-of-dreams-instrumental-version-30-sec

Learning from Storyboard pro learning website: https://learn.toonboom.com/courses/storyboard-kick-start?c=3

Learning with script that was already written called "Lost and Found"

Inserting script:

Drawing Larry:

Background:

Now we can not see the character clearly

Select all and change to gray colour

Another thing to help the character stand out is for it to have a white silhouette behind the line work. To do this follow instruction below.

Auto matte white silhouette of character, usually when you finish the animatic drawings so you can  the onion skin through the panels.

This making a new layer

Pet:

The rest of this blog wasn't saved when I was writing this. So I'm trying to remember how I done it.

Effects

Camera Zoom in, to do this click onto this tool. By doing this you can change the camera size without redrawing the picture.

The black square would appear instead of a light gray square. This making it change the camera view.

Animation within an animatic will need to use the keyframes to make this happen.

Finished animatic