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Glossary Definitions
Glossary of terms.
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3D Animatic
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- The purpose of an ANIMATIC (for those of you who don't already know) is to give the filmmakers an idea of what the EDITING, CAMERA ANGLES, STAGING and OVERALL PLACING of the film will feel like. The 3D Animatic (more appropriately referred to by british as a 'block test') answers questions like: "What scenes are working, which aren't?" "Is this angle too extreme?" etc... The animation is intentionally, ELEMENTARY and BLAND. The first animatic is in fact the first version of the movie. Not so funny, not cute at all. But really usefull to analyse where are the big problems. What works what deos not.
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3D Animatic 1
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- This first animatic is more used to test the character positions, if the gags works, timing, camera position and animation, character size, props size etc... This first animatic can be done with some final models if they exists or with very simple onces. It will give a first impression about the movie. Preferably a first version of the dialogs must be done and recored. The record can be done with non professional actors or students. But they must be quite good already. There ca be lot's of background element missing. There will be no animation or posing. If there is it's only to make the action more clear and only when it's needed. This job will be used to test the timing and the rithm of the movie. It will be usefull to see which techniques will be used to create the dufferent shots. The shots and camera movements will not be completeluy fixed at that time. The first animatic will give a lot of information about what is missing and what is not working.
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3D Animatic 2
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- After the first 3D Animatic was analysed it is needed to produce a second one. The goal of the second animatic is to block things, start the posing, prepare the layout lighting etc... It's after the design and rough modeling is finished. All the missing elements needs to be ready (first modeling). The final voices or very good test voices must be redy too. This time the camera mouvements must be blocked, the basic posing must be done, all models should have it's definitive place.
