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Once you have an animatic in place, as you begin to venture into production, it will be important for you to make a sample scene. A prototype. Beyond concept artwork, when you consider notions of character and environment design, and taking a next step from animatic rough drawing, with the sample scene, you should proceed as though it\u2019s full production, including final compositing and sound design. Think of it as a film within the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do proceed, you should choose a general-level area in the middle of your film. That is, not a challenging section, and not an opening shot. The segment should involve animation though, everything from key poses that will then require breakdowns and in-betweens to tied-down pencil tests, then clean-up, ink, paint, foreground, staged middle-ground, background elements, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With puppet and experimental films, the approach will need to be different. Typically, the production process is almost the opposite of a drawn animation project. Manufacturing of puppets and sets come first, and final renderings happen before animation. However, there are a variety of prototypes you should do at this point, including tests with wire-frame puppets, blocking in with lower-fidelity sets, samples of artwork and materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intention with the sample scene is to discover potential drawbacks and to begin to fine-tune methodologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prototype is not meant to be a locked scene, without changes. You should anticipate revisions. You will want to identify problems. And then, to seek solutions.Text<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WIP reel \/ animatic<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

At this point, you should consider your animatic to be a work-in-progress reel \u2014 until the film is complete. From now on, with pose-to-pose blocking, rough animation pencil-tests, layouts, and anything you do to move ahead with your project, you should place the clips in your WIP reel, which is typically a Premiere project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, place the sample scene in the WIP reel, bracketed by storyboard placeholder drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all goes well, the prototype scene will fit nicely in your developing film. You might get by with leaving it alone, as shots on either side might absorb inconsistencies with visual style and production shifts. Or, necessary adjustments might be minimal, especially if you are utilizing full-production animation software like Harmony (where you can design, draw, composite, and oversee visual effects in one program).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your prototype scene should cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n