Production Pipeline: Version 1 - Where the Sidewalk Ends

Technical Plan - Where the Sidewalk Ends

Name: Katie Ringle               Title of Project: Where the Sidewalk Ends                        Date: March 4, 2016

Technical Plan    

Technical Task 1: Create the Owl Rig 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: One and a half to two weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Set up Toon Boom for drawing and rigging

2-      Do line art and color art

3-      Draw any replacement drawings (eyes, mouth, wings)

4-      Add pegs to all the drawings and combine into master peg

5-      Apply deformer rig to pegs

6-      Do test animations

7-      Repeat process with side, front, and ¾ view

8-      Save all in the library as rigs

Challenges and notes: I will need to learn more about creating a deformer rig and how to set one up properly. I would also like to use morphing for some parts of the animating of the character, so setting up the eyes and mouth for that. Drawing everything in the best way to animate it all correctly.

Insert visuals:

Technical Task 2: Create the monster rig 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: One and a half to two weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Open a new Toon Boom file and title it as the monster rig

2-      Do line art and color art

3-      Draw all replacement drawings (eyes, fingers/claws, mouth?)

4-      Add pegs to all the drawings and create a master peg

5-      Apply the deformers to the pegs

6-      Do test animation, tweak as needed

7-      Repeat process with the front, side, and ¾ views

8-      Save all to the library as rigs

Challenges and notes: Again, I will have to learn how to do deformation rigging. Morphing will be used for his eyes and mouth/head when needed. Will have to learn how to learn puppet animation with deformation animation.

Insert visuals:Owl Character Sheet

Technical Task 3: Creating the hand rig 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half a week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Open a Toon Boom file and save it as the hand rig

2-      Create all the parts of the hand (All fingers and finger digits)

3-      Create the line and color art

4-      Peg all of the parts, create a master peg

5-      Test to be sure fingers move correctly with how I want the animation to look

6-      Do any replacement animations needed

7-      Do some test animation with the hand

8-      Save as a rig in the library

Challenges and notes: Will have to sketch out the hand shape I want, and add it into Toon Boom. Being all black, there should not be a clipping problem when bending the fingers.

Insert visuals: sketch of a side view of a walking hand

Technical Task 4: Creating the initial window 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 Days

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Save out a Photoshop file in case of editing needs

2-      Create initial layer of the base window

3-      Create another layer below that, as the part that will open in the end

4-      This image will be reused towards the end

5-      Add the back tiling and siding of the house

6-      Combine base window and wall, leave extra window separate.

7-      Make high resolution

Challenges and notes: Make the glass slightly transparent, add a light grey box in the back to fill the space.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 5: Create bedroom room shot 1 – side wall 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 week at the most  

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Base layer – create the base shape of the side of the room

2-      Color in floor and walls, add in textures

3-      New layer – draw and color bed

4-      New layer – draw and color table and alarm clock

5-      New layer – draw and color the picture on the wall

6-      Save out all the layers and Photoshop file

Challenges and notes: Make sure style matches. Will add a quick blur when shifting to the next part of the room. Not in initial plans, however, will make the transition less awkward through the room.

Insert visuals: See the prop sheets and storyboard

Technical Task 6: Create bedroom shot 2 – far wall 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 week at the most

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Base layer – create the base shape of the room (flat wall)

2-      Color in wall and floors (Should be a long panel for scrolling

3-      New layer – draw and color vanity

4-      New layer – draw and color lights

5-      New layer – same lights, with alternating “on” lights for the animation

6-      New layer – draw and color computer chair

7-      New layer – draw and color window on the far right

8-      Save out all layers and Photoshop file

Challenges and notes: lights will be the only animated thing in this besides the scrolling of the screen.

Insert visuals: See storyboard and prop sheets

Technical Task 7: Creating computer desk 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half a week or less

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Create a Photoshop file for the desk, high res

2-      Transparent background

3-      New layer – draw and color desk

4-      New layer – create the desk top on a separate layer (so that it may be distorted for the camera shift in the animation)

5-      New layer – draw and color lamp

6-      New layer – draw and color cup with pens

7-      New layer – draw and color book resting on desk

8-      Save file layers and Photoshop file out

Challenges and notes: Challenges will be making the desktop so that I can flip it up as the camera moves to a top view. Being able to stretch it without obvious pixilation.

Insert visuals: See prop sheet, orthographic sheet, and storyboard

Technical Task 8: Creating the book 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: One week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Go into Toon Boom

2-      Draw out book closed laying on desk to looking straight down at it

3-      Use the morph tool to animate between the two

4-      Draw out and color the book frame open, between, and closed

5-      Test morphing between that part opening (test)

6-      Draw out and color a page turning, maybe four key frames

7-      Use the morphing tool between them (test)

8-      Peg and rig out all drawings (pages and base cover)

9-      Save book in the library

Challenges and notes: Research how to do the morphing tool some more. Really get into  using key frames with this, and working with key frames and in-between shots.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 9: Create drawing 1 – Finger and the clouds 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 days

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Open up Photoshop, create a new layer

2-      Draw and color in the outside of the image (transparent background)

3-      This layer will have the clouds and background in it

4-      New layer – draw and color in hand

5-      New layer – slightly transparent clouds to move across

6-      Save all layers and Photoshop file

Challenges and notes: hand and clouds will move ambient  

Insert visuals: See prop sheet and storyboard

Technical Task 10: Create drawing 2 – Sunset with birds 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 days

Steps to accomplish this task.

1-      Open up Photoshop, create a new layer

2-      Draw and color in the outside of the image (transparent background)

3-      New layer – draw and color the sun

4-      New layer – draw and color a bird

5-      Save all layers and Photoshop file

Challenges and notes: sun and birds will move ambient

Insert visuals: See prop sheet and storyboard

Technical Task 11: Drawing window on opposite side of room and the feather

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 days

Steps to accomplish this task  

1-      Draw out and color the far window where the owl will sit at first

2-      Add the same wallpaper in back as in the bedroom

3-      Outside window will be solid color, grey-blue maybe

4-      Draw out the feather in a new Photoshop file

5-      Should be high res

6-      Save both out as files.

Challenges and notes: window will not animate, background piece

Insert visuals: See prop sheet and storyboard

Technical Task 12: Land above the “E” 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 day

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Go into Photoshop and create the top of an “E”

2-      Background is same as in the window (grey-blue)

3-      Make long enough to pan slightly

Challenges and notes: none

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 13: Business street 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half a week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Create a base layer in Photoshop, black road below and blue sky

2-      Add in the sidewalk and

3-      New layer – draw out and color the background buildings

4-      Make a longer shot for slightly panning, more on the right

5-      Back buildings on own layer with sky, road and sidewalk on another

Challenges and notes: will be adding in buildings later on for the middle ground, along with the mailbox and posts.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 14: Creating the buildings

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      New Photoshop file

2-      Create and draw out building

3-      Will be a flat image

Challenges and notes: All buildings will have the same process, just slightly different styles (i.e. candy shop, factory style, etc.)

Insert visuals: See orthographic shots and storyboard

Technical Task 15: Creating extras for the outdoor shot 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half a week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      All will be in separate layers to be exported out

2-      New layer – tree 1

3-      New layer – tree 2

4-      New layer – lamp post

5-      New layer – mail box

6-      Combine all of these things in the original outdoor shot

7-      Sky and back buildings on one layer

8-      Detailed buildings with smoke on one layer

9-      All props, sidewalk, and street on another

Challenges and notes: combine them all to create depth when panning

Insert visuals: See storyboard and prop sheet

Technical Task 16: Create smoke 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 days

Steps to accomplish this task 

1-      Create smoke mass as a solid background layer

2-      Create stylized black swirls for inside details

3-      3-4 styles

Challenges and notes: spirals will be animated to spin and scale in After Effects

Insert visuals: See prop sheet and storyboard

Technical Task 17: Create rubble shot where the monster is standing 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 day

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Create a base layer in Photoshop with the grey-blue background

2-      Add smoke on the top that can drift with the swirls

3-      Background layer of rubble

4-      Rubble for in front of the monster

5-      Save layers separate in Photoshop files

Challenges and notes: will add in monster later

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 18: Morphing the cracks 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half to one week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Create a first phase crack

2-      Create the same crack, except cracked further

3-      Keep going until I’m at the final version of the crack

4-      Use the morph tool to finish the in-betweens

5-      Do 8-10 different cracks

6-      Figure out timing needed for each, then render out.

Challenges and notes: research of morphing tool

Insert visuals: Will need different cracks and designs; see storyboard and prop sheet

Technical Task 19: Creating the morph from the crack to the hand 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: One week

Steps to accomplish this task 

1-      Create one crack from scratch (still small and morphing)

2-      Have it morph into a big crack, vaguely shaped like a hand (following same steps as above)

3-      Draw out the hand at the end of the morph (copy of the original puppet)

4-      Have one or two in-between drawings

5-      Morph in between the layers and drawings

6-      Maybe add splashes or cracks shooting out as it changes

7-      Stop once the hand is fully morphed, will continue when animating

Challenges and notes: Animating and morphing this will definitely be challenging since I am still new at the morphing tool. Learning this will really help me, along with lots of practice.

Insert visuals: see storyboard

Technical Task 20: Environment for hand 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 day

Steps to accomplish this task 

1-      Photoshop file with off-white background

2-      Black line across the bottom as the ground

Challenges and notes: none

Insert visuals: none

Technical Task 21: Creating Door Environment 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Draw out the door with the cracks around it from far away (storyboard)

2-      Close up shot will be like in the storyboard, zoom in on same drawing

3-      Draw the door plain

4-      Draw the door at 45 degrees

5-      Draw the door at 90 degrees

6-      Draw the door at 135 degrees

7-      Draw door flat once more, except open

8-      Color all the drawings.

9-      Us the morph tool between each (if this does not work, will add more in-betweens or just animate frame by frame myself)

10-   Place a grey rectangle where open door is

Challenges and notes: Trying to make it an opening door will be challenging. If I have to, I will animate something opening in Maya, and draw it, or use the animate door.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 22: Make outdoor scene for final fly by 

Software applicable: Photoshop

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 3-4 days

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Draw a basic outdoor scene in Photoshop

2-      Very long, 2-3 times longer than screen

3-      Sky and clouds on back layer

4-      Mountains on middle ground

5-      Grass on front layer

Challenges and notes: Things will pan over at different speeds, creating depth

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 23: Drawing the torn up book 

Software applicable: Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Copy the open book from the first part of the animation

2-      Add the burnt and torn look to it

3-      Cracks slowly morphing around the hole

4-      Create another drawing of the book, closed, with claw marks on it

5-      Create a slightly transparent cloud of smoke to hover over the claw marks

6-      Create some in-between drawings with blur lines and some book pages showing

7-      Maybe use a blur tool in Toon Boom

8-      PART 2: Create the monsters arm and rig it (basic arm, little work)

9-      Animate it grabbing the cover and closing it

Challenges and notes: Challenges here would be making the book look like its closing. However, with doing it before, I should have it down by then. Adding the morphing cracks throughout

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 24: Animating Scene 1 Shot 1 

Software applicable: After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half a week

Steps to accomplish this task 

1-      Create new scene in After Effects, bring in all the files for this shot

2-      Add a slow zoom, using a camera

3-      Bring in words one at a time

4-      “animated by Katie Ringle” comes in together

5-      All fades in

6-      Add a wiggle affect to the text

7-      Quick zoom in through the window; add a blur and zoom

Challenges and notes: Adding the wiggle will be challenging, for I have to learn how to do that.

Insert visuals: http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/after-effects-wiggle-expression/

Technical Task 25: Animating Scene 1 Shot 2

Software applicable: After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half a week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Start a new After Effects file and bring in all files for this shot

2-      Import the Photoshop file with all the layers

3-      Camera pans slightly to the right, while objects pan a little different to add depth

4-      Words come up immediately, in their order

5-      Words slide in from various directions

6-      Add the wiggle effect

7-      Animate the hand on the alarm clock

8-      Another blur transition

Challenges and notes: Make sure to leave time for the viewer to read the words.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 26: Animating Scene 1 Shot 3 – Shot 4 

Software applicable: After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: Half a week to one week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Start another After Effects file, named accordingly

2-      Bring in all the files for this front wall of the bedroom

3-      Place them all in the scene

4-      Animate the camera panning through the room

5-      Animate the lights flashing on the light strand (Alternating the images)

6-      Pan stops on the desk, bring up the words one at a time

7-      Add the wiggle

8-      These will wipe in

9-      When transitioning, the camera will zoom in towards the desk

10-   The desktop will distort to make it appear that the camera is looking above it at the book.

11-   Add in the animated book when it morphs from flat to front (exported from Toon Boom)

Challenges and notes: matching the Toon Boom animation and the After Effects animation

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 27: Animate Scene 1 Shot 5 – Scene 1 Shot 9 

Software applicable: After Effects and Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Go into Toon Boom and animate the book turning

2-      Leave enough time between page turns for words and reading

3-      Render out all the page turns, bring into After Effects

4-      Create a new scene here, and bring in all the pictures and files needed for the shot

5-      Scene 1 Shot 6: Add in image and animate hand; add in all the text one at a time, flashing in with a slight scale up

6-      Use a mask to cover it up as the page turns

7-      Scene 1 Shot 8: Add in the picture and animate the sun and bird; same with text as before

8-      Hold this page, animate the feather falling into the scene on the book

9-      Duplicate the feather animation and darken for a shadow

10-   Transition: blur over to the window, end file

Challenges and notes: Timing the page turnings right and aligning them up with the images. Don’t forget to animate pictures

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 28: Animating Scene 1 Shot 10 – Shot 11 

Software applicable: After Effects and Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Start a new After Effects scene, bring in all the files for this shot

2-      Within the empty window, add in the words one at a time. These will fade in.

3-      Add the wiggle effect

4-      Figure out the timing of the full scene

5-      Go into Toon Boom and animate the owl (looking around, moving around; in shot 11, animate him moving his arms up, lifting off the ground, and hovering)

6-      Render out the owl, bring into Toon Boom and place in the window

7-      Animate the feather falling out of his wing as he flies up slightly

8-      Transition: quick zoom (blur?) towards the letter “E”

Challenges and notes: make sure the owl animation timing matches the After Effects one

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 29: Animating Scene 1 Shot 12 

Software applicable: After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 days

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Start another After Effects scene, bring in all the files needed

2-      Animate the feather fluttering above screen

3-      Animate the words, one at a time

4-      Words will speckle in at random, maybe random letters at a time

Challenges and notes: simple shot

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 30: Animating Scene 2 Shot 1 – Shot 2 

Software applicable: After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: one – one and a half weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Start a new After Effects shot, bring in all the needed files for these shots

2-      Place them all, and set them in different parts of the z axis, so the pan has depth

3-      Words will come in one at a time, sliding in out of the background buildings

4-      Add wiggle effect

5-      Camera zooms in or moves forward to the smoke coming from the far right building

6-      Animate the smoke moving slowly, and the swirls in the smoke spinning and drifting

7-      Words come in one at a time, fading in

8-      Add wiggle effect

9-      Camera slow pans over to the left

10-   Transition: camera blurs over to the next shot, moving left

Challenges and notes: will be interesting trying to zoom in like this without showing pixels. Will have to work around that.

Insert visuals: See storyboard and prop sheet

Technical Task 31: Animating Scene 2 Shot 3 – Shot 5 

Software applicable: After Effects and Toon Boom

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 2 weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Create a new shot in After Effects, and bring in all the props for this shot

2-      Figure out timing of the words, move into Toon Boom

3-      Animate the monster standing in idle, like in shot 3

4-      Have him open his mouth and move his hand up to the words

5-      After a while, have his mouth close, have the toon boom camera zoom in on his eye, like in shot 4 until we are through the eye

6-      Render out animation and bring into the After Effects file

7-      Composite the monster into the shot

8-      Add in the words as described in the storyboard, coming from his mouth and the back of his head.

9-      Move the background and zoom as the Toon Boom render zooms in

10-   Add in the cracks in After Effects as his eye zooms

11-   Settle the shot after the eye is fully gone.

12-   Import the cracks created in Toon Boom earlier to the scene

13-   Add in the words, one at a time. These would quick fade in.

14-   Add wiggle effect

15-   Transition: camera zooms in below the “a” in -phalt

Challenges and notes: keeping resolution will be a challenge here, especially zooming in the “a”. There is a lot of compositing here.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 32: Animating Scene 2 Shot 6 – Scene 2 Shot 8 

Software applicable: Toon Boom and After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: One week at most

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Start a new After Effects file, bringing in all the props needed

2-      Go into Toon Boom, and do the crack morph from the small crack, to the big crack, and then eventually to the hand

3-      Have the hand rigged for cut out puppet animation

4-      As the hand changes, have the little cracks on the side disappear

5-      Have the hand move down, two fingers down, and begin walking in a cycle

6-      Render out and bring into After Effects

7-      Animate the hand file moving down and walking off the screen

8-      As it walks by, the words appear one at a time

9-      They will slide into place from various directions

10-   Add wiggle effect

11-   No transition, just go to next shot

Challenges and notes: Again, more composting of the two programs

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 33: Animating Scene 2 Shot 9 – Shot 10

Software applicable: Toon Boom and After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: half a week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Start a new After Effects Scene, bring in all files

2-      Go into Toon Boom to animate the hand

3-      Add in a walk cycle, have it stop, lift, and pinch fingers down, like picking something up

4-      Have the camera zoom in, so it looks like shot 10

5-      Render out and bring into After Effects

6-      Composite the Toon Boom Scene to the ground

7-      Have it pick up the feather image, lifting it very close to the screen

8-      Add in words one at a time, they will wipe in

9-      Add wiggle effects

10-   Zoom until hand is complete gone

11-   Transition: wave feather up and down twice, then blur off

Challenges and notes: getting the hand timing right between Toon Boom and After Effects. Zooming in on the feather without pixilation.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 34: Animating Scene 2 Shot 11 – Shot 14

Software applicable: Toon Boom and After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Create a new After Effects Scene bring in all the files

2-      Feather will wipe away to reveal the door, placed in with Photoshop files

3-      Words will come in one at a time, just appearing

4-      Add wiggle effect

5-      Camera zooms in closer to the door, to the right so the door is on the left

6-      Bring in the animation create in Toon Boom early on, of the door opening

7-      Add in the words one at a time, fading in

8-      Add wiggle effect

9-      Use distort tool and masking as doo opens

10-   “that is measured an slow” will already be in doorway and “and slow” will already be on inside

11-   Use distort and transformation to animate

12-   Transition: slow zoom into doorway, grey fades into background of next shot

Challenges and notes: getting that door opening will be hard. Using the masking tool will be interesting. Not all the text comes in, some is already there.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 35: Animating Scene 3 Shot 1 – Shot 3 

Software applicable: Toon Boom and After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 week

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Go into Toon Boom first

2-      Animate the owl flying in place

3-      Have him falter in flight, look around, have feather move, etc

4-      Render out and bring into new After Effects scene

5-      Import all files for these shots

6-      Camera pans slightly with the owl as he flies off the screen

7-      Words come up one at a time, floating in and hovering

8-      Add wiggle effect

9-      Camera shoots over to the left, add a blur here

10-   Camera returns to the window, same as at the beginning

11-   Stop here, go into Toon Boom and animate the monster character

12-   He needs to have a leg up, going into the window like shown in the storyboard

13-   Render and bring into After Effects

14-   Mask out parts of the monster so it appears that he is climbing into the window

15-   Have the window close as the monster closes it

16-   Words come in one at a time, fade in, add wiggle effect

17-   Transition: camera moves through the closed window

18-   Will do this with a zoom, a flash of the blue glass, and then moving to the next shot

Challenges and notes: Moving back and forth between the programs. Also, masking out the monster correctly will be a challenge.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 36: Animating Scene 3 Shot 4 

Software applicable: Toon Boom and After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1-2 weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      First, go into Toon Boom and animate this character climbing into a hole

2-      Render this shot out, and bring it into a new scene in After Effects

3-      Use the desk and front wall stage like before

4-      Use a mask to make it appear he is climbing and disappearing into the book

5-      Also add a mask on his claws as they dig into the desk

6-      Camera follows as the monster moves down, camera follows to top of desk

7-      Go into Toon Boom and animate the flat, open book to the top view (morphing tool)

8-      Bring that in and use that for the transition

9-      Transition: desk top distorting and the book morphing to the top view.

Challenges and notes: Having the desk top distort and the book morph will be a challenge to match up. Do the book first, and then time the desk to go with it.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 37: Animating Scene 3 Shot 5 – Shot 8 

Software applicable: Toon Boom and After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 2 weeks

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Create a new scene in After Effects, bring in all the files needed

2-      Desktop and book are at about 45 degree angle

3-      Go into Toon Boom and animate the book

4-      Use morphing on the cracks and the hole

5-      Create a quick rig of the monster’s arm, and animate it closing the book.

6-      Will use some in-betweens and blur effects to the book closing

7-      Use morphing to get a front view of the book

8-      Render out and bring into After Effects

9-      Words will come in one at a time, speckling in (bleeding from the desk)

10-   When the book closes, the cover text is already there

11-   Claw marks and cracks will have morphing properties created in Toon Boom

12-   In After Effects, the feather will come in and whip twice, then fade to black with a black rectangle

Challenges and notes: Again, a lot of bouncing from programs until I know what I want to do. Showing depth with be difficult.

Insert visuals: See storyboard

Technical Task 38: Compositing all the Shots together 

Software applicable: After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: 1 week at the most

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Go through all the scene saves and render them out

2-      Bring them all into a master After Effects folder and combine together

3-      Check to make sure they all line up, add transitions as needed

4-      Add in credits if needed

Challenges and notes: Making sure all the shots line up

Insert visuals: create an animatic to get timing down

Technical Task 39: Add Audio 

Software applicable: After Effects and Audition

Estimated time needed to complete this task: A few days

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Find sounds and music I want to use

2-      Combine them as I want

3-      Add to master animation

Challenges and notes: Learning how to use Audition and learning how to get the right music together

Insert visuals: none

Technical Task 40: Final Render   

Software applicable: After Effects

Estimated time needed to complete this task: A couple of days

Steps to accomplish this task

1-      Render out the master shot with the music

2-      Upload to site, YouTube, and blogger

Challenges and notes: Upload wherever to get it around

Insert visuals: none