3D Production Pipeline Flashcards

Flashcards for 3D Production Pipeline, covering pre-production, production, and specialist roles.

Storyboard

Drawings in the form of a comic strip used to visualize the animation's storyline.

Model Sheets

Precisely drawn groups of pictures showing all possible character expressions and poses.

Production Phase

The longest and busiest phase of an animation project.

Character Design

Developing the appearance and features of characters in an animation.

Expression Sheets

A guide to character facial expressions, such as smiling or laughing.

Animatic

A timed moving version of the storyboard with audio.

Animatic

A major component of pre-production.

Texture

The way something feels or looks as if it might feel like something.

Character Line-up Sheets

Sheets produced to compare the scale of characters against one another.

Director

The person who approves camera moves, depth of field, and composition during production.

Dope Sheet

Sheet indicating the timing of the scene and individual character movements.

Stop Motion

Animation capturing one frame at a time with physical objects moved between frames.

Rigging

Adding bones to a character for animation.

Animation

Creating a progressively altering image that gives the appearance of continuous motion.

Character TD

Responsible for making test animations showing how a character appears when deformed.

Storyboard

Finalizes the development of the storyline.

Effects Team

Responsible for producing elements such as smoke, dust, water, and explosions.

Layout

A visual map that instructs artists on where characters are positioned and how they move.

Layout Artist

Produces the 3D version of the storyboard.

Scanner Operator

Responsible for scanning drawings prepared by the Clean-up Artist.

Onion Skinning

Method used to view several frames of an animation simultaneously.

Walk Cycles

A common form of loop animation.

Lighting TDs

Combine animation, effects, camera moves, shades, and textures into final scenes.

2D animation

Animators create poses on a series of still images that are referred to as frames to create the illusion of movement

3D Animation

Digitally modeled and manipulated by an animator, emphasizing a smooth production path.

Model Sheet

Show all the possible expressions that a character can make, and all of the many different poses that they could adopt to accurately maintain character detail

Expression Sheet

Guide to character facial expressions, such as smiling, laughing, sad, shocked, startled, sleepy, alert, thoughtful, concerned, etc.

Character Line-up Sheets

Produced to compare the scale of the characters against one another.

Animatic

A timed moving version of the storyboard accompanied by audio.

Storyboarding

Helps to finalize the development of the storyline and clearly communicate ideas, detailing key events and scene changes.

Major components of a pre-production process

Storyboard, Layouts, Character Design (Model Sheets, Expression Sheets, Character Line-up sheets), Animatics

Layouts stage in the Pre-Production

design the locations and costumes, and stage the scenes, showing the various characters' positions throughout the course of each shot.

Production Phase

The actual work can start, based on the guidelines established during pre-production.

Major activities undertaken during the production phase

layout, modelling, texturing, lighting, rigging, and animation.

Layout

Instructs the various artists on a scene where the characters are to be positioned and how they are to move.

Modelling

Turn the 2D concept art and traditionally sculpted maquettes into high detail, topologically sound 3D models.

Lighting Artist

Do lighting the individual scenes, also they bring together all of the elements that have been created by the other departments.

Texturing

Complete the final stages in preparing the model for animation and rendering.

Rigging

Adding bones to a character or defining the movement of a mechanical object, and it's central to the animation process.

Animation

Accurately planning a character’s performance frame by frame is applied in 3D graphics using the same basic principles and aesthetic judgments that were first developed for 2D and stop-motion animation.

Dopesheet

To provide instructions concerning the time duration of individual character movements, scenes, camera moves and audio details.

Ink & Paint

The process of colouring the drawn frames is used to transfer drawings over to cels which are then hand painted.

Line Test

Frames are captured either via a video camera, frame by frame or by scanning them into a computer to how well the sequence is flowing

Onion Skinning

A method used to view several frames of an animation simultaneously, it allows the animator to check the changes occurring within each frame and how they flow together.

Walk Cycle / Loops

Is a form of loop animation, where the sequence of frames used to show one foot moving in front of another can be repeated continually and gives the effect of continuous walking.

Modeller

turn the 2D concept art and traditionally sculpted maquettes into high detail, topologically sound 3D models.

Layout Artist

Set the stage for each scene of animation.

Background Artist

Creates scene settings.

Key Frame Animator

Draw the images that determine the beginning of a movement and the end of movement.

In between Animator

Draw the images or frames in-between the key frames to complete the movements prescribed by the Key Frame Animator.

Clean-up artist

Are responsible for re-drawing the Key Frame and In-between Animators drawings which are normally of a rough line quality.

Scanner operator

Is responsible for scanning drawings prepared by the Clean-up Artist.

Digital ink & paint artist

Is carried out by Digital Ink and Paint Artist using specialist ink and paint software.

Texturing Artist

Are responsible for writing shades and painting textures as per the scene requirements.

Lighting Technical Directors

Lighting Technical Directors make sure there is consistency in lighting, colour balance and mood between the various elements of a shot or scene.

Lighting Artist

Lighting Artist do lighting the individual scenes, also they bring together all of the elements that have been created by the other departments.

UV Mapping

To pull every surface of the model apart and have it as a 2D image.

Modeling

Is the process of converting the visualization or the art work in to the 3D.

Character design

Involves developing the appearance and character features.

Four types of twinning animation

Scale animation, Rotate animation, Translate animation, Alpha animation