Creating a Previsualization (Previz) : Making an Animated Movie (#7) Video Lecture | A Guide to Making an Animated Movie - Professional Skills

hey guys in this video I'm going to show
you how to make a pre-visualization or a
previous and will actually go on the
previous I made for my film geometry
exercise that I'm currently working on
and show you exactly the steps I took to
make that previous so I already show you
how to make a storyboard and then turn
that into an animatic and then after
that we need to turn the animatic into a
previous which is a 3d semi animated
version of your animatic so let's take a
look at the animatic for a second so
this is the animatic I made now it's not
very detailed but then I just replaced
each shot with the 3d version of it the
animated Maya and that's what we call a
previous so one go I just want to show
you the folder structure for a second I
kind of show you the photo structure in
my pipeline tutorial but I just want to
make I want to show you how it looks
like when it's done these are all the
shots that I made for for the previous
and in each one of them we have a Maya
file with the animation and the
playblast which is a just a playlist of
that shot and then we take each play
blast bring it into After Effects in my
playlist folder here and then line them
up one after another now let's let's
look at some of the elements we have
here on the previous window we have the
name we have a nice little working
progress sign saying that it's just a
work in progress very important the shot
number the timecode and the framing the
timecode is not enough it's it's really
important because we need to know how
long the film and and what place in time
we are right now but we also need to
know what frame were on so we can give
very specific critique or comments based
on the frame that we're at so we can say
frame 1094 till eleven thousand fifteen
needs to change to you know whatever so
we need to be able to be very specific
and shot number there's a bit so that we
can reference what we're looking at and
and give comments based on that like
shot sex needs to replaced with you know
shot five or just delete it all together
now you'll see that some of my shots
most of them go by order we have shot
number one then two three four but
you'll see that here for example let's
look for it we have shot called 20 and
then 5 to 105 instead of going to shot
21 that's that's why we have that extra
0 so that some because because sometimes
we need to squeeze a shot in between two
shots that we didn't think about before
so I had this shot shot 19 so I had this
shot shot 20 and the shot after shot 21
and then I decided I want to squeeze
another shot in between that so what am
I going to call it so if I didn't have
that extra 0 I would be stuck because I
do I could just call it shot 20 and then
5 and the next one could be shot 21 but
the next shot is actually shot 22 well
that's because I decided to delete shot
21 altogether I just didn't like it so I
still have it if I want to bring it back
I'm not going to change the names of the
name of it but this is kind of showing
you how flexible the process is then
shot 23 shot 24 was also deleted as you
can see and then straight to shot 25 and
then in between shot 25 and shot 26 I
decided to add another shot so I call it
25 5 so that's that's why we have three
digits here for the shot number instead
of just calling a child one we call a
chug zero one zero you'll notice I also
added another little thing here the
focal length that's this is the the lens
size that I've used for each shot this
is not mandatory to do but I just I like
seeing exactly what lens I used for
every shot now I'm going to make another
tutorial showing you explaining the
camera decisions I made for the previous
going over the lens sizes and
the angles that I've used but for now
just just know that like when you watch
my previous you can see exactly what
lens that use and then maybe oh maybe
you can help you decide what lens you
want to use for a specific shot because
you can just reference this it's also
good for making comments like someone's
like a friend concealers and I think I
think this shot has a too wide of an
angle it's like if it's 18 millimeter
that's very very wide angle so maybe you
wanna you know bring it up to like 30 so
that's why I like putting the focal
length on on each shot alright so that's
pretty much what I do in After Effects
when I make the previous after that I
bring that video after I export that I
bring it in to audition and that's where
I make my very basic sound design this
is absolutely not the final sound for
the for the film in it and when you're
going to watch my previous you'll hear
some sounds and music know that this is
not the final sounds at all this is just
very basic scratch sound effects and
generic music that I found that just to
give the feeling of the movie so I have
like a bunch of channels here I have the
voice Channel I have the music ambience
some sound effects channel and I have
the video playing so I can I can match
the sounds you see it's very it's very
basic cartoony sound that's not you know
good at all but it's it's important to
have that because you need that's the
best way to convey the feeling of the
story even if it's very basic it's much
better than not having any sounds at all
I don't put any effects on anything I
just on the master Channel I put a two
effects that I think just make
everything sound a little better and the
first one is mastering and the second
one is multiband compression and I think
I picked the classical master preset I'm
not mistaken so that's pretty much it
it's it's pretty simple and very very
important to do that step the
pre-visualization step because now I
have
like a finished film not a finished film
but like some kind of film that I can
show to people and see if there's some
problems and I did find some problem
this is lecture the second previous that
I've made I didn't publish the first one
because I send it to a few people and
they gave me you know pretty good
comments that I I decided not to publish
it yet because I thought I can adjust
those comments before publishing this
one this is still will probably go
through some changes before it's done
but it's as close as it's going to get
before I start animating if you have any
comments that you think you think like
something is not working or you're not
getting the story it'll be really great
if you write it in the comment section
I'll definitely read them and maybe you
can help me find some problem that I
didn't see this is why this stage is so
critical this is where you're going to
find all your biggest problems after
that we can start animating each shot
replacing the shots and the previous
until the previous is no longer a
previous but an edit but that's for
later alright guys thanks for watching
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