You need to first come up with an idea yourself, or be given a commission, then write a treatment, a script and come up with a rough budget and finally you pitch your concept to someone. Once the pitch is sold, you can finalize the budget script and get together your crew. (Pre-production)
2. Concept Design:
Concept Design is the first stage of designing your animation, you will be going preliminary work so you can illustrate the narrative and possible visual treatments of the project (experimenting with style and characterisation). (Pre-production)
3.Storyboarding:
The Storyboard artist and the Director try and visualise the script and tell the story when producing the storyboard.
The storyboard illustrates:
-Narrative
-Composes the shots
- Demonstrates action
-Indicates camera movements
-Maintains continuity
If the Director, Producer or Clients make changes to the script or can see any improvements needed, the storyboard artist will need to update the storyboard. (The better the storyboard, the smoother the production runs.)
The storyboard can then be adapted into an animatic, which can become a working reel which will later help you layout and piece together your animation.
4.Production Design and Visual Development:
Either the Art Director or the Production Designer (sometimes both) will process the final designs for the characters and environments, and develop the style of the production. (Most of the design will be drawn at this stage)
According to Skillset.org:
For 2D animation:
Model sheets, turnarounds of characters and key backgrounds are produced.
For Stop Frame animation:
Characters and sets are designed;
For CG:
Designs for characters, environments and special effects are produced.
5.Recording the Dialogue:
In this stage, the Director and Producer cast the voices for the characters and the director is always there for the recording sessions, to direct the actors. The script is voiced over the picture in the session. Although the producers also like to work with the actors to assemble the dialogue.
6.Building the Models, Rigging:
Modellers will then look at the drawings and begin building the CG models of the characters and their environments. Riggers will then create a moving skeleton/structure before the models can be animated, which allow parts and joints to move for the animators.
7. Layout and Animatics:
Layouts are used to stage every scene and camera set up in the production, they are made based on the storybook and previous design material. This design material can include things such as camera movements, visual information about the character action and backgrounds.
8.Animation:
When the layout is finally approved, the animation process starts. The Director and Animator will assign scenes to individual animators who will then go on to produce the images which creates the illusion of movement. The number of animators depends on the size of the project. Once the layouts are done, they will be shot or turned into a layout reel or into a storyboard reel.
9.Final Backgrounds and Colouring:
In 2D animation, the final colour backgrounds can be produced from the layouts onwards, and reflect production designs. Paper animation is sometimes scanned and tidied up on the computer before colouring with the software.
In Stop Frame the frame is made before the animation process.
In CG the environments are built by the modellers before the animation process as well, but lighting and set dressing is done later on in the production. Also the colouring on characters in CG and the environment models are enhanced by the effects and lighting.
10.Lighting and Compositing:
Lighting dictates the final colour and atmosphere of each shot for the CG process. In all parts of animation compositing is needed and and elements such as animation, effects, and backgrounds are combined into the finished image.
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11.Post Production:
During post production, sound effects will be added, music recorded and the sound track will be finalised. The Edit Master can then combine the picture with the soundtrack and can then output it onto broadcast standard or film.
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