cartoon movies
Since childhood, we have been watching cartoon films that used to draw us in for long hours. These beautiful films that simulate the innocence of childhood, and entertain the child’s imagination to another world, are a means of children’s entertainment and spending their time, as well as a useful educational method. The first launch of these films was at the hands of the painter Winser McKay, after showing “Little Nemo” in New York, then its high-quality productions continued, until the making of animated films became one of the world’s famous arts, and it began to develop sequentially according to scientific development, until it reached what it has reached nowadays in the production of cartoon films with dimensions treble.
Stages of making cartoon films
- Idea: A cartoon film begins with an idea that comes to the mind of one of the workers in the production companies, then this idea is put on the agenda so that work on its production begins.
- Scenario: The script of the story begins with defining the characters and places, the plots of the story, its crises and solutions, beautiful meanings, lessons and messages to be conveyed to the child’s mentality, then this story moves to specialists to study its psychological impact on the viewers, and the impression that the child will have around it, then to the comedian team literary To add some funny situations and catchphrases to the story, the production engineers then start running the long production line regularly.
- Voice: After preparing the scenario, the preparation of the talks begins by relying on it, by choosing the actors very carefully according to the style of the cartoon character who will express his condition with his voice, whether with joy, sadness, love, or enthusiasm.
- Innovative art: in the sense of creating things, and it means following several things and steps in order to reach the final form of the artists, by studying their personal characteristics, their history, their behavior, their clothes and their designs; Therefore, this step requires bringing in the best fashion designers to complete it successfully, in addition to studying the environment surrounding the characters, and the locations of the story events, by following two stages: the quick sketch stage; With the aim of identifying the elements, and the stage of studying the color impression, sunlight, and the extent of the influence of the elements on it.
- Story board: where the director and animators divide the scenario and the composed story into drawings, in addition to determining the angles of the camera, and imagining its movements as much as possible.
- Entering the world of 3D: Provides 3D artists with character plans, which consist of front and side drawings of characters, on which he relies to prepare film characters in their final form, with attention to technical matters related to character animation programs, and continues preparation by making the necessary materials for characters and coloring them, and all the elements included in The film, and after completing the preparation, these characters are handed over to the technicians to prepare them for the next animation step.
- Animation: This stage begins with the step of framing the movement; That is, setting the scenes drawn from the storyboard, determining their time, putting the people’s voice on them, then starting to move the cameras and arranging the scenes as planned, going through making the main positions of the character, reviewing the director, then dividing the movements into more positions, reviewing the director, and ending with facial expressions and speech .
- Special effects and simulation: Some special effects, such as fire and smoke, are added by computer and programming specialists, in addition to simulating hair, clothes, and others.
- Lighting and Direction: Lighting is applied to the scene; To give it a general impression, it is first determined by the drawing artists, then applied by the rationing, and then the stage of sequentially producing the images begins.
- Assembling and Editing: In this final stage, the scenes are assembled and arranged, special effects are applied to the image, some clips are modified and deleted, and then the sound is installed.
