For people who are not in the animation industry, sometimes one may wonder that bringing an animation or a character to life is pretty simple. Instead, the pipeline of even moving the character frame by frame is pretty time-consuming and that's just a small part of it.
In most big companies, the animation industry has several departments as will explained in the video.
Here is a slapstick video of the entire animation pipeline that we go through everyday!
Sit back, relax and let me shed a little light of what we animators have to go through.
https://vimeo.com/37445157
Video Credits : https://vimeo.com/davidtart
And here is another video by dreamworks that is in.... well... 3D animation
Most of us work behind the scene even sometimes not getting a credit cut in the end scene.
Artists and Animators are like the unsung heroes of movie production and advertisements.
Here's to understanding the animation pipeline! Cheers
