One of the biggest challenges in making an animated movie is putting together a production pipeline. The biggest of the studios struggle to get this piece right and which has been a point of failure for many projects in India in the past. As much of each of this depends on the skill of the people who are leading each of these departments. While in the West, the level of specialisation and skill are more mature, Indian animation industry is getting there. While we are not sure if we have cracked it yet, here is the process that we have put in place. Sharing the process we follow at Punyatkoti for a limited 2D animation (flash based) so that it is useful for the rest of you who are contemplating doing something similar.
- Script
- Screenplay
- Shot breakdown
- Thumbnail
- Storyboard
- Animatics - Line up
- Moving and timed animatics
- BG Layout
- Character Layout
- Painting
- Sketching
- Tracing
- Cleanup
- Rigging
- Pre-staging
- Staging
- Animation - Action
- Animation - Expression
- Animation - Walk and Run Cycles
- Animation - Lip
- Quality check and fixes
- Line-up
- Editing
- Compositing
- Colouring
- Effects - Ambience
- Visual Effects
- Dubbing
- Scratch music
- Sound - Ambience
- Sound - Mixing
- Rendering
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