This subject is designed to demonstrate to students the importance of efficiency and organisation when implementing a post-production pipeline for animation productions.
In practical sessions students implement a post-production workflow that, while flexible and allowing for change, incorporates a disciplined structure enabling students to migrate to and from different projects on which they are working. These sessions provide students with the opportunity to take on a diversity of roles across several productions which require them, after analysing the demands of the roles, to demonstrate a broad range of post-production skills.
Importance throughout the subject is placed on students adhering to naming conventions and other file management structures from a ‘Production Bible’ (as created in the pre-production phase of the major project). This document forms the basis for consistency within the production and has been prepared with a view to providing a solid foundation for students moving across productions.
In tutorial sessions emphasis is placed on file management and render queues in order to successfully and efficiently replace animated shots within the edit as the production progresses. In tutorial sessions case studies are used to illustrate the consequence of failing to establish a workflow that easily transfers completed shots into the final sequence without disrupting the template created during the stages of animatic, video block and animated block.
During post-production activities students undertake designing, recording, and editing sound for a production. With lip synch dialogue already pre-recorded and utilised within the production phase of the animation, emphasis is placed on foley sound effects and music for the screen. Students are required to incorporate these elements according to the requirements of a production into a final product.
