Cartoon Drawing for Digital Animation

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Pitch Bible

Pitch Bible Project

Goal: 
Choose an old film and design it as an animation that could be turned into a series. You will create a trailer style animatic.

Do:
1. Find a movie from before 1970 that has not been an animation. 

2. Search for a existing trailer that you will use as the template for the project. Try to keep the length at 30-60 seconds.

3. Do some research on the film you have chosen. Create a digital file with photos from the movie, they will be used to inspire your drawing. Look for backgrounds, and full body shots of the characters. Most importantly, watch your movie, this is the best way to begin your research. 

4. Begin sketching your versions of the characters. The goal is to recreate the world in your drawing style, do not try to make perfect copies of the characters. You can draw everything as Rubber Hose, UPA, Anime you pick.

5. Decide how many principle characters vs. supporting characters you will have. You will need to draw and ink a character page for each of your principle character. The supporting characters can be placed on one page as a line up.

6. For the Character Page, draw the front facing character first. Place it on the left hand side of the page.

7. Place a blank sheet of thin copy paper on top of your drawing. Match up the edges of the page so that they are parallel.


8. Using a ruler and your red pencil, draw horizontal lines across the page that line up with key reference points on your character, such as: top of head, chin, stomach, hand, elbow, knee.... 


9. After you have finished drawing your lines, set the page with the pencil lines off to the side and trace over your lines with a marker.


10. You can now place the lined page under the page with your drawing. You can use the lines that should show up through the page as guide lines when you draw the rest of the character.


11. You need front, 3/4 front, profile, 3/4 back, and back views. 

12. Once the character pages are drawn but not inked, create character spins for each, this will allow you to test your drawing skill. The spin will quickly show you what is out of alignment. If you have no changes to make you can ink and color your drawings. Create a second character spin with the completed, colored characters.

13. In pencil, create a thumbnail storyboard that shows the camera angles and indicates the movement of characters and objects.

14. Rip the audio from your trailer, try the link below.
https://ytmp3.cc/en13/

15. Create a storyboard animatic, this is done by scanning in your thumbnail storyboard pages, cut them up into single panels and bring them into animate. Each panel should remain on screen for as long as that shot will last. Add the ripped audio. In the end you will have a storyboard animatic that matches your trailer.

16. Draw your wide backgrounds, based on the environments shown in the trailer. This is a great chance for you to do some world building. Please ink and color them.

17. Begin building your final animatic. Place the backgrounds onto the timeline as needed, begin creating motion tweens (Zoom in, zoom out, pan etc...), add graphics.

18. Now you can cherry pick the parts of the animation that really interest you. Use the digital draw tablets, keep the drawing simple.

19. How to turn in at the end of the semester.
A. Create folder with, character pages and character spins in both color & B/W.
B. Create folder with, backgrounds in both color & BW, and any general concept art that is not character based. 
C. Create folder with, Storyboard pages, Storyboard Animatic Final animation and Pitch Bible.

20. The Pitch bible is a scrollable PDF that consists of artwork you have already created, with additional written descriptions.

A. Cover art
B. A short paragraph that gives an overview of the story.
C. One single page for each main character that contains both a drawing of the character and a short Bio. with information that is not limited to, age, personality, likes, loves hate etc... 
D. A cast line up page.
E. Backgrounds




The project below is a student animatic.





How to Create a Pitch Bible 

with Heather Kenyon



Click on the blue "Watch on Vimeo" box
  








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