Film making

• Animated film


  • Approximately 90 minutes long
• Film


  • Composed of many sequences
• Sequence


  • Approximately 1 to 7 minutes long
• Shot


  • Typically 0 to 30 seconds long
• Frame


  • 24 frames in one second of animation, each frame on screen for approximately 0.04 seconds
• From storyboard to final frame, each film takes an average of three to five years to create what you see on screen
• Filmmaking process


  Begins in Development, where the storytellers craft the narrative and the artists define the look of the characters and worlds
• Creative Development


  Involves research and feedback
• Creative Development - Research Trips

  Team dives deep into culture, history, science, art, and more, learning through experts and immersive experiences
• Story


  Begins with the script, written after conducting research
• Story (Tools)


  Online templates can be used for creating the script
• Thumbnails


  Story Artists draw thumbnails based on the script
• Storyboard


  A visual plan for a story, a comic strip version of important scenes
• Visual Development


  Artists enhance the story's themes by crafting characters and worlds using appeal, color, design, and composition
• Total of 15 characters were designed by the BSEMC students for their thesis
• Animatics


  Rough, animated version of a storyboard used to plan out flow, timing, and pacing of a scene before full production