From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
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Creating sweatbox notes and preparation - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Learning 2D Animation Principles
Creating sweatbox notes and preparation
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…
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