I'm not a newbie here, but this I am relatively new to the animation world. When I was younger I used to make stop motion films for fun (never intended to be a filmmaker though), and as of late, I've been nostalgic about how great that was.
I'm not really a talented model or set builder however, and I sure as hell cannot draw. I have a few ideas that I've kind of just got floating around and undeveloped because of this. However, my girlfriend started making a doll a few days ago, and she's also researching getting a graphics tablet (she's a pretty talented artist). Which got me thinking about stop motion/animation again. It's something she's wanted to do too (when she was younger, apparently she planned to go into digital art).
So my questions:
1) Where do you start with animation/stop motion? I'm a fan of the handdrawn look, so we won't be aiming for anything pixar-y or disney styled. But regarding drawing, would it be a case of her drawing the backgrounds and characters, etc in a 3d modelling/animation program, and getting an animator to animate them (or her/I learning to use said programs)? Or is there a different process? What about lighting/lighting effects (photoshop/lightroom/animation program?)
2) As the one without talent in this production, what's my role, and how do I make myself useful? Obviously I'll be writing it with her (potentially doing the bulk of the writing) and I'll storyboard it, and give opinions on the art - but what else do I do as director? (or is producer more of a fitting term?) If there is dialogue to be recorded, I'll obviously be directing the voice actors, but, yeh. I also fancy myself as an editor, but is this kind of a case of in-camera editing? I presume the actual editing process would be watching back the final animation and maybe trimming bits down, adding titles, etc.
3) Regarding dialogue - presumably you record dialogue first, and then create the animations?
4) If we do some stuff with models, how much post work is expected in this? Is it again, simply a case of in-camera editing being refined in post? maybe a bit of colour work?
Sorry if my questions are vague or too obvious. I haven't done anything like this since I was a kid (and in those days I just did it, and finished in a day or two, without really thinking about it).
Thanks guys!
I'm not really a talented model or set builder however, and I sure as hell cannot draw. I have a few ideas that I've kind of just got floating around and undeveloped because of this. However, my girlfriend started making a doll a few days ago, and she's also researching getting a graphics tablet (she's a pretty talented artist). Which got me thinking about stop motion/animation again. It's something she's wanted to do too (when she was younger, apparently she planned to go into digital art).
So my questions:
1) Where do you start with animation/stop motion? I'm a fan of the handdrawn look, so we won't be aiming for anything pixar-y or disney styled. But regarding drawing, would it be a case of her drawing the backgrounds and characters, etc in a 3d modelling/animation program, and getting an animator to animate them (or her/I learning to use said programs)? Or is there a different process? What about lighting/lighting effects (photoshop/lightroom/animation program?)
2) As the one without talent in this production, what's my role, and how do I make myself useful? Obviously I'll be writing it with her (potentially doing the bulk of the writing) and I'll storyboard it, and give opinions on the art - but what else do I do as director? (or is producer more of a fitting term?) If there is dialogue to be recorded, I'll obviously be directing the voice actors, but, yeh. I also fancy myself as an editor, but is this kind of a case of in-camera editing? I presume the actual editing process would be watching back the final animation and maybe trimming bits down, adding titles, etc.
3) Regarding dialogue - presumably you record dialogue first, and then create the animations?
4) If we do some stuff with models, how much post work is expected in this? Is it again, simply a case of in-camera editing being refined in post? maybe a bit of colour work?
Sorry if my questions are vague or too obvious. I haven't done anything like this since I was a kid (and in those days I just did it, and finished in a day or two, without really thinking about it).
Thanks guys!
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