An animatic, is something im surprised ive never heard of before, turns out i have seen them before in behind the scenes of most animations however, i always just considered them a storyboard.
Well an animatic is a storyboard, a timed, kind of moving storyboard.
It helps determine not only if things will flow, or would need any changes before production actually starts on the animation, its a bit late 6 scenes in and realizing scenes 4 and 5 dont look right transitioning together. It allows anyone working on the project to see if theres anything more or less needed, and if anything should be moved about. this was yes a storyboarding exercise, but a very useful one.
So we had a choice of three, I was tired of the cowboy trailer, (backwards engineering) and figured it had been done too many times, i wanted something new and different. So option three seemed best, but most others were doing it, so i figured i would see what the third option was, and it interested me more, after all it was good practice for something i will need to do for placement reels anyway.
The chosen option was create an advertisement on yourself, like to employers, or peers, to tell them quickly a little about yourself, where youve been and where you intend to go and how.
It sounds a little vain but i was looking at it as practice for something ill have to do soon enough anyway.
So i got to the old drawing board. and decided if i was to narrate it i should have a little narrator character, loosely based on myself. so i designed a few, asked a few peers for feedback and it was decided a cute little chibi me was both appropriate and light hearted.
When storyboarding, the angle, the shot, the transitions, and the basic movement of what will be happening on screen isnt the only obvious part of a storyboard, theres a million other things to include, even if just in short hand writing below.
Things like sounds, effects and anything else someone would need to know if they were to make the animation without speaking to you, and only having the storyboard to go by.
Our lecturer actually had an interesting idea that he thought would be horrible for us. But a few of us in the class have decided it would be good craic sometime to create a storyboard, put it in a bundle and someone else at random is to animate it, and see if they will do it the same way we would, or how they would read it or make it differently.
I suppose if your grade rested upon someone elses storyboard or animation it would be worrisome, but for fun exercise it isnt a half bad idea.
Once the wee character was decided on (chibi me in my most comfortable shorts boots and a simple tee....i clearly didnt give much thought to what th chibi should be wearing) i created the storyboard, cut and added different scenes, i then recorded my narration unfortunately (which i hope you cant hear too much in the final reel) and got back to the timing (told you i'd use it in every excersise after the timing one) Once i had the animatic done i thought, i still have two days until the next class.... i could make this a proper digital animatic ! im not going to say exactly how long it took me but lets just say it wasnt done by the next class.... or the one after that.
im very happy with the final result, ya know, if i hadnt been dosed with the cold and had to listen to my own croaky voice repeatedly for this exercise. It was a brilliant exercise for any self advertisements id need to create i future for gaining placement/work/commissions
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