Creating an Animatic: Making an Animated Movie (#4) Video Lecture | A Guide to Making an Animated Movie - Professional Skills

hey guys today we're going to learn how
to turn your storyboard into an animatic
an animatic for those of you who don't
know is an animated storyboard it's kind
of like a guideline for you while you
make your movie later on this animatic
will turn into a previous and then into
a finished film so I recently finished
working on my storyboard geometry
exercise is the temporary name for the
film you can see some of the board's
here the first thing before I do before
I actually import all the boards into
After Effects is collecting sound
effects so I go to my sound effects
library and just collect all the sounds
that I think I might use and the
animatic you know just some sounds that
I thought I probably unused you would
add sounds later according to your needs
but this kind of gives you a nice base
to start then you import all of them
into After Effects put them in a sound
effects folder and they're there
whenever you want to use them so we
import our boards and we can start
making the animatic so basically all of
your boards are just photos you line
them up in After Effects one after
another and try to take care of the
timing to make sure the timing is
correct and the movie works so you see
it's kind of like 2d animation but
obviously very very loose not very
specific you want to convey the actions
and the emotions of what's going on the
scene so you see all those purple layers
here are my drawings so you keep doing
that keep adding you check the timing
you check how you kind of playback the
movie to see how it works all the way
I'm not gonna spoil the ending but all
the way to the end after you've done
that you can render your movie to see
how it looks and starts start adding
sound effects all the green layers here
are my sound effects layered on top of
each other so that's the basic setup for
creating the video for the animatic
after that there's a second stage that I
like doing is putting this entire
composition into a new one and add some
information like frame number timecode
if you want to write work-in-progress
the name of the animatic it kind of it's
looks more professional but more than
that it's a good thing to reference
later when you want to make corrections
for example you know that a frame $6.99
there was something you wanted to change
or at 31 seconds you want to make a
change so it's kind of it's a good tool
for referencing later when you're
animating or making the previous another
thing is placing the shot number that's
really important you always want to keep
track of your shots so you can make
changes in the right shots later so as
you can see my shots change how do I do
that well the shot numbering over here
is just different layers and each layer
I just changed the name to two the next
shot
but these two guys here the frame number
and the timecode is actually a preset
effect of After Effects and it's really
easy to create all you do is in the
effects and preset window you write time
and over here there is an expression
called display comp time if you double
click it it'll automatically generate
this timecode thing you see it updates
as you move then you can scale it
and place it whatever wherever you want
for the frame number your right frame
and there's an expression called frame
number double click it will
automatically generate a frame counter
that's it that's kind of a simple
overview of how I make animatics
they shouldn't be more complicated than
that
not I mean you can add more boards to
make the action more clear but an
animatic is really just the first step
in understanding if your film works or
not so for the next video I'll start
working on the models for the cube and
the ball if there's something you want
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