SCHEDULING: HOW? WHY?
scheduling for creative projects:
- small amount of tasks that can be easily completed
- gives you more free time to focus on other things!
- planning for:
- unforeseen events - giving yourself enough time to be flexible against the uncertainty of life!
- milestones YOU WANT to meet! : THINGS YOU WANT TO HAPPEN AND THINGS YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH!
- reminder: no schedule is set in stone, unless you make it so?
- SCHEDULING YOUR ANIMATION PROJECT!
- A. count up the amount of time you have to work on it in easily digestible chunks (weeks, months, etc.)
- B. make a list of objective tasks that you want to complete in your creative endeavor!
- examples:
- color and multi-toned shadows
- cool lighting effects
- interesting music
- jokes that get a laugh every time
- a scene that WILL MAKE someone cry.
- When you work on a project: You will get input from LOTS of people at some point. A great schedule helps you focus on what’s most important, take the feedback that is necessary and ignore the feedback that is not.
- C. Create Estimated time frames for completing different tasks of your project!
- It may help to work backwards from the date you KNOW you want your project completed!
- Schedule the end of your project ahead of the time you think it will be done!
- Examples of Schedules:
- THE LIST
- THE CALENDAR
- THE SPREADSHEET
- THE GANTT CHART
- Example Schedule: (2 character animation project)
- list of things I want to complete:
- color
- lighting (shadow tones)
- sound and audio
- awesome lightning effect
- Oct
- 7 - 11
- 5 secs of animation
- 14 - 18
- 6 secs of animation
- record voices for character 1
- 21 - 25
- 6 secs of animation
- color: wk 1 sequence
- record some sound effects
- 28 - 11/1
- 6 secs of animation
- color: wk 2 sequence
- record some sound effects
- Nov
- 4 - 8
- 9 secs of animation
- color wk 3 sequence
- 11 - 15
- finish recording audio
- special lightning effects
- 18 - 22
- 8 secs of animation
- 25 - 29 (thanksgiving)
- 5 secs of animation
- color remaining sequences
- project Completed
- 12/2 - 6
- review project
