Create visual references
Overview
This Standard is about your ability to produce the visual reference (model sheets, drawings and prototypes) that will be required by the animation team. This will involve translating the agreed designs for the production to produce: • character poses and turnarounds • environmental backgrounds that match the layouts provided • prop turnarounds, for moves identified from any actions in the storyboard You will need to assemble the relevant information from the production designs, storyboard, and directors brief to create sufficient visual reference material to demonstrate for the animators the shot composition, action and, if appropriate, the way 2D layouts should translate into 3D animation. This standard is for you if you create visual references.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
determine the creative, technical and production parameters that
will affect your work by analysing the brief, script, storyboard or
animatic
- translate initial character designs into appropriate poses and
turnarounds, showing all required positions, angles and views,
with particular regard to continuity and size relationships
- create environmental backgrounds with appropriate perspective
and lighting that match existing designs
- identify and record in appropriate places the props that are
required in the storyboard and/or in any action
- produce libraries of all the necessary visual reference, including
any appropriate turnarounds
- produce visual reference material that establishes the required
mood, meaning and effect within the confines of the required style
- produce accurate visual references that provide the necessary
information for use by the animation team, supported by
explanatory notes when required
- deliver visual reference material in the format required for the
production
- review material with relevant people, offering suggestions to
assist others with the production
- respond to feedback about the material you create in a positive
way, making refinements as needed
- remain flexible and adaptable to new directions, creative
requirements and developments in design at all times
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
the aims, objectives and narrative of the production and its overall
conceptual vision
the design style and colour theme to be used in the production
technical parameters, including the animation technique and
medium that are being used and the appropriate field-guide for
the intended output format and aspect ratio
the software skills required
the importance of shot composition and how characters and
background interact
- production parameters, including the design and animation
process
how the work you produce will be used in the animation
the format for producing visual references for the production, such
as model sheets for characters showing key poses and
turnarounds
- the illustration techniques and drawing skills that are needed for
any artwork being produced
the principles of anatomical drawing and perspective
the effects of camera positions, angles, lens types and lighting in
relation to characters, props and environments
film literacy
why it is important to record changes and agree that they are
correct with the relevant people
- how to maintain back-up files of previous versions in case
directors back-tracks on decisions