Flash Animation Process - Boards to Animation [6]

Storyboards to animation comparison. From animatic to final ink & paint of characters and backgrounds of a Johnny Test scene.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Johnny
• Test
• Flash
• Animation

[flawless50]

This may be a stupid question. do the different colors mean the body parts are on different layers, if so why is johnny and the dog in one color but still animated?, if you know what i mean

[collideascopeanim]

@flawless50 Sometime sit means they are on separate layers, but sometimes it doesn't either way they are on separate layers, all body parts are, it's just a coincidence that they are the same colors sometimes, animators make them different colors just to differentiate between them.

[chowderfanatic]

look up the hill its johnny & the kid with the hair dissorder

[millgrl]

i LIKE johnny hand drawn.

[19TimiT91]

Wow. How do you animate? Is it like computer animation where you rig the characters and then program them to move like they do?

[wonchopmonkeyman]

Makes sense.

[floobynooby]

It costs a lot more, if you've drawn with Flash you'll know that you have to think about the tappered lines and the fact that your final clean-up lines have to be consistent so they don't 'boil'. Then there's the fact that the pencil lines are easier to manipulate and shape and to change their color as opposed to the brush line, all done with the pressure-sensitive Wacom pen.

[wonchopmonkeyman]

Brush art costs more? O.o Guess it's a time=money thing.

It's good to get an insight into the industry nonetheless. Thanks.

[floobynooby]

We tried to keep it a classically animated as possible, since all the animation was done in Korea for the first season, to keep costs down we had to stay with the stroke outlines method rather than the thick-to-thin brush line for clean-up. We'd hand-draw as much as possible, the voice tracks came from WB, we'd do our own designs, boards and animatics, animators animated to the audio frame by frame.

[wonchopmonkeyman]

I never really liked the flashitized season of Johnny Test, particularly with the whole stroke outlines and stuff, but as an animator it is neat to see how stuff like this is put together. I assume you're given the lipsync first and then animate or was LS part of your job?