Animation routine.

Animated films are created throught a simple process that usually follows the same routine. This routine usually consists of these 11 steps:
1) Idea, brief, treatment, script, production planning.
2) Concept Design
3) Storyboarding
4) Production Design and Visual Development
5) Recording the Dialogue
6) Building the Models, Rigging
7) Layouts and Animatics
8) Animation
9) Final Backgrounds and Colouring
10) Lighting and Compositing
11) Post Production

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This method is mainly for professional usage so I will not be using all of these steps in this order. My past experiences of animation have taught me to use the order of:


1) Idea, brief, treatment, script, production planning.
2) Concept Design
3) Storyboarding
4) Production Design and Visual Development
5) Recording the Dialogue
6) Creating sets and Characters

7) Layouts and Animatics
8) Animation
9) Post Production

This is because with stop motion animation the backgrounds and lighting have to be set up and created during the animation process. and cannot be easily edited afterwards. However, using green screening is one method that can be used to change the backgrounds afterwards.