Production Art
Overview
Make final additions and revisions to your animation assets
(1) Review the Production Art Design Guide
Color & Visual Hierarchy - Final Adust.
Letting the rank order importance of the content dictate the rank order importance of the visual design. This helps reduce the cognitive load required to decipher an image. This is especially important in animations where images come and go quickly. For layout and illustration this can be can be broken into levels:
level 1 elements are the most important to the narrative or UX and should attract the viewers attention first
level 2 elements are the second most important to the narrative or UX and should attract the viewers attention second
level 3 elements are the second most important to the narrative or UX and should attract the viewers attention third, and so on...
Once your character design is completed, or even while you are designing it, you may want to use layer effects to adjust your background elements to ensure the character 'pops' out.
By student Dan Neph
By student Owen Hurley
Tina Uhazie, Britanny Zerkle, Aaron Leathers
Using Lighting to Change the Visual Hierarchy
It's best to use lighting effects and a desaturated background to enhance focus in the compositions. Focus is a critical tool for reducing the cognitive load required to "sort out" images, leaving more of our brain function to follow the story and feel its emotional impact.
(2) Production: Create The Remaining Assets for All Scenes
Match the background and character styles you have previously developed
Watch Bill's Demos
Open the video in YouTube to see a table of contents. You can use that as a checklist for completing the assignment.
(1) Complete all of your multi-plane backgrounds and rigged characters
(2) Create the additional assets, such as lip-sync mouths, various facial expressions, or arm and leg poses. Additional assets are anything that can't be created through puppet-ing.
Instructions
Create any remaining assets in the same file that contains your Background and Character designs.
You must use the techniques shown in Bills' demo.
If it moves: put it on its own layer... including background planes and character parts.
Upload your file into your 'Design and Production Art' Folder. Name your file like this: FirstnameLastname-Production.fla
(Upload Your File)
Upload it to your Planning Google Drive folder and name the file: Production-a,b,c,etc.fla
Example File
Optional Technique Demos
Just watch these, don't do them. Use them as reference for methods that you may choose to use in your illustrations
Import a Complete Illustrator File
Import a layered Adobe Illustrator file into Animate while preserving all of the layers.
Copy and Paste Assets Directly From Adobe Illustrator
In Illustrator, copy the asset.
In Animate, paste the asset using the settings below.
If the asset is not pasting correctly, choose it with the subselection tool in Illustrator, then paste it into Animate.
