1. Pre-planning (script, modeling, storyboard)
1) Conceptual design - the industry's common professional animation process of pre-production.
2) The content of the animation scenes drawn according to the script, characters, props and other two-dimensional design and overall animation style positioning work, to the back of the three-dimensional production to provide reference.
3) storyboard - according to the text of the creative script for the actual production of the sub-shot work; hand-drawn drawings to build up the picture; explain the camera movement; tell the plot to the back of the three-dimensional production to provide reference.
2. Intermediate Production
4) 3D Rough Modeling - Rough models of the story's scenes, characters, and props are created by the modeler in the 3D software in preparation for the Layout
5) 3D Storyboarding (Layout) - A storyboard is created using 3D rough models based on the script. -Using 3D rough modeling to create a Layout (3D storyboard) based on the script and sub-storyboard. This includes knowledge of camera placement arrangements, basic animation, and shot time customization in the software.
6) 3D character model D scene props model - according to the conceptual design and customers, producers, directors and other comprehensive views, in the three-dimensional software for the accurate production of the model, is the final animation into the film all the "actors".
7) mapping material - according to the conceptual design and customers, supervisors, directors and other comprehensive views, the 3D model "make-up", color, texture, texture and other settings, is an essential part of the animation production process. It is an essential part of the animation production process.
8) Skeletal skin - according to the storyline analysis, the 3D need to animate the model (mainly for the character) before the animation of some of the deformation, action drive and other related settings for the animator to do a good job in preparation for the animation, provide animation solutions.
9) Scene animation--Referring to the script and the storyboard of the scene, the animator will create the performance animation of each shot for the characters or other objects that need to be active according to the shots and time of the Layout.
10) Lighting - according to the style positioning of the pre-conceptual design, the lighting engineer will illuminate the animation scene, detailed depiction, fine adjustment of the material, and grasp the rendering atmosphere of each shot.
3. Post-production
11) 3D special effects - according to the specific story, produced by the special effects artist. Several kinds of water, smoke, fog, fire, light effects in three-dimensional software (maya) in the actual production of the performance method.
12) Layered rendering / compositing - animation, lighting production is completed, by the rendering staff according to the post-compositing division of the views of the footage file layered rendering, provide the layers and channels used for compositing.
13) Dubbing and music - by the script design needs, by the professional dubbing artist according to the footage dubbing, according to the plot with appropriate background music and a variety of sound effects
14) editing - with the rendering of the various layers of the image by the post Personnel synthesize the complete film, and according to the customer and the producer, the director's opinion edited into different versions for different needs. 1.softimage3d: softimage3d can be said to be the big brother of the field of three-dimensional animation software, produced by the softimage company. Its most well-known part is mentalray super renderer and outstanding motion control technology. 2.3dsmax: This is a three-dimensional animation software applied to the pc platform of the oldest, produced by autodesk. It has excellent multi-threaded computing ability, supports parallel computing of multi-processors, rich modeling and animation capabilities, excellent material editing system. In China, the number of 3dsmax users greatly exceeds that of other 3D software. 3dsmax's success is largely attributed to its plug-ins. There are many professional and technical companies around the world in the design of various plug-ins for it. 3.maya: maya is alias/wavefront company produced the latest three-dimensional animation software. Although it is a latecomer, but has more than softimage3d momentum. It is a new generation of animation software with a new structure. 4. lightwave3d at present lightwave in Hollywood's influence is not worse than softimage, alias, etc. It has excellent quality. It has excellent quality, the price is very low, which is one of the reasons why many companies choose it. Titanic" in the Titanic model, is made with lightwave. If you want to learn, depending on the direction of your development, 3dsmax favors game production, easy to get started. maya is more for animation production, especially role animation production. In addition, there are softimagexsi more for high-end movie and television production, as well as lightwave, is also a good animation software. There are other new 3d animation software and zbrush and blender, we recommend that you try to choose one of the study, each software has its shortcomings and advantages, software is only a tool, mainly to see the author of their own. At present, the domestic animation production with 3dmax and maya, these two learning more people, easy to understand, recommend that you choose one of them. As long as the software, most will have plug-ins, plug-ins in fact, is the function of the software itself to supplement, if you know programming, you can write their own plug-ins! Maya plug-ins less, mainly greenworksxfrog, and cgmuscle muscle plug-ins, 3dmax is a lot of, such as cat, afterburn can not be counted, plug-ins are not necessary! The plug-in is not necessary, depending on the situation and use. Although I'm not a person, but still understand some, I hope to help