The scratch track used during animation typically contains only the voices, any songs to which characters must sing-along, and temporary musical score tracks the final score and sound effects are added during post-production. A completed cartoon soundtrack will feature music, sound effects, and dialogue performed by voice actors. Given the slow manner in which traditional animation is produced, it is almost always easier to synchronize animation to a preexisting soundtrack than it is to synchronize a soundtrack to pre-existing animation. Storyboard artists will have regular meetings with the director and may redraw or 're-board' a sequence many times before it meets final approval.īefore animation begins, a preliminary soundtrack or scratch track is recorded so that the animation may be more precisely synchronized to the soundtrack. The images allow the animation team to plan the flow of the plot and the composition of the imagery. A storyboard has an appearance somewhat similar to comic book panels, and is a shot by shot breakdown of the staging, acting and any camera moves that will be present in the film. Process Writing and storyboarding Īnimation production usually begins after a story is converted into an animation film script, from which a storyboard is derived. The technique was the dominant form of animation in cinema until computer animation. Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand. Painting with acrylic paint on the reverse side of an already inked cel, here placed on the original animation drawing

Simple pencil animation