Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify animation requirements
- Generate and assess ideas
- Review animations, artworks and other creative sources that may inspire design ideas
- Obtain other relevant information that may influence design ideas
- Generate a range of animation ideas that are technically feasible, respond to specifications and provide creative solutions to all design issues
- Present animation ideas to relevant personnel using appropriate design techniques
- Plan approach
- Assess the range of industry-current 2D animation software available to determine compatibility with design specifications
- In consultation with relevant personnel, select the most appropriate 2D animation software for a given purpose
- Evaluate initial design ideas and specifications against findings and discuss with relevant personnel to select final design concept
- Produce animations
- Apply basic screen principles, visual design principles, communication principles, animation techniques and animation principles to produce animated sequences
- Source and import, or generate sufficient quantity of key drawings to establish required actions
- Combine animated objects to produce single sequences according to creative requirements and specifications
- Integrate audio assets where necessary
- Save and store animations using appropriate output file formats and standard naming conventions
- Finalise animations