I was just wondering if the artists who do some heavy animating in Flash, use any thing like the exposure sheets, used by traditional animators. I'm reading Richard William's Animator's survial guide and wondering if its necessary. Thanks.
I am not a skill Flash animator but I would think that the use of time sheets all depends on your project. If you are doing a very long and complex series of shots, then a time sheet might be a good idea. Try doing one anyway, just to get the feel of using it and see how it works for you.
HEY I JUST WROTE A TUTORIAL ABOUT THIS!
What I use a x sheet for is for getting the dialogue in so that when I do the mouth sync, I know what mouth shape is coming up and speed up the process. But I don't make any notes for panning in, fading out or camera moves or anything like that. They are so quick to do in flash, that I tackle those things when I rough out the cartoon.
I don't use X-sheets either. What we get are the printed copies of the storyboard, and an .fla animatic of our sceens, the storyboards timed out with the dialogue. I then just listen to the dialogue a whole bunch of times to see whats going on. Then I listen a bunch of times more with my eyes closed so I can hear how the dialogue is being read and imagine what the characters are going to do, then start blocking and animating. As for lipsync, I just scrub though and do it that way. I have little flash cards with all the mouth shapes and their corosponding frame number on them so I can just glace down and plug away.
It's been my expericence, which isn't much, that X-sheets are more heavly used when the animation is outsourced. Not neccesaraly over seas, but even from one state to another or even across town. Where as if the whole team is under one roof, the director can just come over and talk with the animators.
So in a very long winded answer, no I don't use em :)
Aloha,
the Ape
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...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
Man Erik, when you talk about your job like that, it makes a man envious. Just getting to engage like that. Who says non-independent work can't be fulfilling?
It's really great working on our show. We don't have exposure sheets, but the storyboards are slugged out. Even so, we are given a lot of artistic freedom. If we don't think something is working, time out wrong or staged funny, we can go to our directors tell them our ideas, and for the most part are alowed to change things. Sometimes not, but they usually explain what's going on, and then it makes more sense.
Aloha,
the Ape
—
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
I am not a skill Flash animator but I would think that the use of time sheets all depends on your project. If you are doing a very long and complex series of shots, then a time sheet might be a good idea. Try doing one anyway, just to get the feel of using it and see how it works for you.
HEY I JUST WROTE A TUTORIAL ABOUT THIS!
What I use a x sheet for is for getting the dialogue in so that when I do the mouth sync, I know what mouth shape is coming up and speed up the process. But I don't make any notes for panning in, fading out or camera moves or anything like that. They are so quick to do in flash, that I tackle those things when I rough out the cartoon.
Here is the tutorial:
http://www.cartoonsolutions.com/clubhouse/lip_sync.html
Flash Character Packs, Video Tutorials and more: www.CartoonSolutions.com
I don't use X-sheets either. What we get are the printed copies of the storyboard, and an .fla animatic of our sceens, the storyboards timed out with the dialogue. I then just listen to the dialogue a whole bunch of times to see whats going on. Then I listen a bunch of times more with my eyes closed so I can hear how the dialogue is being read and imagine what the characters are going to do, then start blocking and animating. As for lipsync, I just scrub though and do it that way. I have little flash cards with all the mouth shapes and their corosponding frame number on them so I can just glace down and plug away.
It's been my expericence, which isn't much, that X-sheets are more heavly used when the animation is outsourced. Not neccesaraly over seas, but even from one state to another or even across town. Where as if the whole team is under one roof, the director can just come over and talk with the animators.
So in a very long winded answer, no I don't use em :)
Aloha,
the Ape
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
Man Erik, when you talk about your job like that, it makes a man envious. Just getting to engage like that. Who says non-independent work can't be fulfilling?
Not I Scattered.
It's really great working on our show. We don't have exposure sheets, but the storyboards are slugged out. Even so, we are given a lot of artistic freedom. If we don't think something is working, time out wrong or staged funny, we can go to our directors tell them our ideas, and for the most part are alowed to change things. Sometimes not, but they usually explain what's going on, and then it makes more sense.
Aloha,
the Ape
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."