the process of animation

The process of animation

Step 1: Concept - the process of animation begins with an idea that is ultimately used to create a story 

Step 2: Storyboard & inspirational art - the animation department draws a storyboard and inspirational sketches depending on the story they're telling. a storyboard which looks like a large comic strip is a series of drawings that visually show action, story development or camera movement. inspirational sketches provide a visual ideas in emotions that will be used as the story evolves.

Step 3: Voice recording - before the animators begin drawing the voice artists records the dialogue so the artist will know how to animate the characters.

Step 4: Drawing - the animators would make draft sketches of the characters and the entire film on paper and sent to the 'ink department'

Step 5: ink and paint - they trace each drawing into a celluloid and after they finish they send it to the photography department.

Step 6: backgrounds - the background is painted for every scene 

step 7: photography - the production's celluloid are laid on top of the background and photographed by a special camera with the lens that facing downward. the camera photographs each celluloid one frame at a time. shooting 24 frames for each second of film.

this process is what creates the illusion of movement.