11 Second Animation: Video referencing

In one of my previous posts I explained the relevance for the animator of video referencing. This time, the task was to film myself acting the scenes of my animation.

11 Second Animation: Animatics

By creating an animatic we can have a first look of how our animation is going to end up. In this process, soundtrack and storyboard are put together in sync for the first time, so of course, to do this we need to have both of them available.

11 Second Animation: Storyboard

Once a script is finished, the next step in animation design is the storyboard.

Video referencing

Animators should have good knowledge of how the human body moves so their future animations are realistic. One good method to learn how to animate a scene is filming it with real actors or looking up video references. These give the animator a good idea of how body language and gestures should work in an animation.

11 Second Animation: Script

This semester's big project consists on a eleven second animation, for which we had to search a soundtrack. I chose a little scene from an Arrested Development episode which I find quite funny, so this is the script that I made out of it.