I try to do as many VFX in shot as I can, for example attaching objects to each other to make them look like they are flying instead of having to do a whole bunch of masking work (the best example of this is in the third part my short Harry Potter series ). If you reduce the speed to 0.25, you can see that the snowballs are always attached to a brick during flight, which saved lots of time spent masking things later. The amount of VFX editing that i have to varies, as things like Star Wars brickfilms take a lot longer than Minecraft brickfilms, due to all of the lasers, explosions etc. Anyway this is the usual order of things:
1. Put all clips into the right order, duplicate any parts and cut any scenes that I either don't like or ones which have noticeable issues (the latter however are mainly done during filming so I can reshoot them while I still have everything set up, but occasionally some slip through my original check)
2. Do any VFX work (lasers, masking etc.)
3. Add all SFX, music, and record all of the voices (I know lots of people do this before they start animating, and I should probably do the same, but I've always been able to record along with the animation without too many major issues. However, I have done all the voices first this time for my WW1 animation
4. Add all Titles/Credits
Out of my own interest I have made some notes on the average time taken for certain parts of production (bare in mind that i work at 15fps):
1 second of animation: 45mins (of course this varies a lot, depending on the complexity of the scene)
1 second of masking: 75mins
1 second of speaking: 30 seconds (I usually take 3-5 takes before getting it right, but I have previously done up to 10-15 takes to get it right)!
1 second of VFX (lasers, lightsabers etc.):
1 page of script: 35mins
1 page of storyboard: 25mins if very rough, 50 mins if it isn't rough
Setting up a scene: 30mins
Deleted scenes/Used scenes ratio: 1/3
I would recommend doing the same or at least getting to know the time taken for tings like this as it has helped me with planning what time I need to get things done
YouTube |
Twitter Who even reads this?