Join Dermot O' Connor for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating sweatbox notes and preparation, part of Learning 2D Animation Principles.
…Another valuable tool at your disposal, especially when you're directing…a project or overseeing a project, is the sweat box note.…And it's surprising how many people don't actually write these.…I've worked on productions that didn't use…sweat box notes and the result was painful.…So what's a swap box note?…And the director and the leads will sit down anybody who has…a bird's-eye view of the project and write a note for each…scene, and that note travels with the scene, either taped to it,…if it's a physical scene, or as a note inside the file.…
So it could be an FLA file in flash, or various production…files for AfterEffects, Maya, Cinemathority and…so forth, so when the animator, or…whoever, opens the file, they see that note from the director telling them…watch out for this, here's what I have in mind for the scene.…So I'm going to write a sample sweat box note for one of these scenes.…So here's one page of my storyboards, and…I'm going to pick the bottom center scene, 5-0, 50.…Once you have your storyboards down, once you more or less approve them as…
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4/11/2014These lessons are designed with Flash in mind, but work just as well with any other 2D animation program.
- Creating gesture drawings
- Comparing storyboard styles
- Squash, stretch, and volume
- Comparing timing and spacing
- Using anticipation, overshoot, settle, overlap, and follow-through
- Creating eccentric walks
- Building stock mouth shapes for dialogue
- Creating thumbnails
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome47s
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1. Design
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Comparing body types6m 27s
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Understanding silhouette1m 52s
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Creating gesture drawings2m 50s
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Tying down the drawing2m 57s
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2. Staging, Storyboard, and Layout
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Demonstrating lighting4m 8s
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3. Technical Issues
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Comparing frame rates4m 39s
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4. Animated Physics
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Understanding arcs7m 38s
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Squash, stretch, and volume4m 59s
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5. Anticipation, Overshoot, and Settle
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Leading action3m 19s
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6. Drag, Overlap, and Follow-Through
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Moving holds and idles5m 3s
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7. Walks and Runs
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Creating eccentric walks6m 50s
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Animal locomotion3m 38s
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8. Dialogue
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Finding dialogue accents2m 42s
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Using complementary shapes3m 59s
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9. Thumbnails, Acting, and Animating
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Creating thumbnails4m 31s
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Conclusion
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Next steps2m 9s
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