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RKA can provide a variety of animation services to suit your company's needs. Our services include:
Listed below, from concept to realization, are the basic steps of production. |
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| Script. Because every frame is going to be hand-drawn, Animation needs to be meticulously planned. The starting point is always the script. |  |
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Storyboard. This is the comic strip interpretation of the script, describing all the main moments, scene by scene. |
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| Soundtrack. In the topsy turvey world of Animation the soundtrack needs to be recorded up front, and becomes the foundation for the planning of the entire production. |  |
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Track Reading. In order to work out scene timings and plan the performances of the characters, the soundtrack must to be analyzed frame by frame. |
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| Designs. As part of pre-production all the principal characters and background settings must be designed. |  |
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Leica Reel. In order to get a first impression of how the finished scenes would look by filming the storyboard drawings to the timings derived from the soundtrack. The live version of a leica reel is called an animatic. |
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| Pencil test. With the planning approved, animation gets underway and as each scene is roughed out in pencil, it is test shot on video. |  |
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Clean up. Once approved, the rough line-test drawings are cleaned up and prepared for scanning. |
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| Scanning, Tracing & Painting. The cleaned up drawings are scanned and painted on the computer. |  |
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Compositing. Having been precisely timed out on exposure sheets, the painted scenes are combined with the backgrounds and all the camera moves and special effects are now put in place. |
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| Rendering and Output. The completed scenes take time to be rendered out on the computer, but once rendered they are stored as digital files, which can be output to final master. |  |
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Final Sound. It’s always best to leave the adding of special sound effects and a final mix of the soundtrack until after the final pictures have been completed. |
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