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Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
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Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition

by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 7m
English
CRC Press
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Timing for a 3D Digital Production

When directing artists using a 3D program, in many cases there are no exposure sheets to work from, or additional columns on the reel. The director must get his/her wishes to the animator using storyreels with many specific poses, then a detailed face-to-face conference to explain all you want done. In this face-to-face meeting, the director would give the animators quick sketches or diagrams to better illustrate his/her points. Director Brad Bird would have the reel projected upon a whiteboard for his staff and explain his wishes by drawing with a dry-erase marker right on the held frames.

When directing for a 3D production to be done overseas, the director can have himself filmed, doing the lecture, explaining ...

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ISBN: 9781000338225