Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine a 3-D character model for animation requirements
- Study the production documentation animation requirements for 3-D character
- Determine the target environments for a 3-D digital character animation
- Establish the required level of detail for a 3-D character model animation
- Determine work-flow sequences, to ensure that production schedule deadlines are met
- Select the software tools that best suit the production pipeline and the target game engine, and platform, for the final export of a 3-D digital character modelling, and animations
- Create the required animations, using a variety of animated tools
- Determine the most efficient animation methodology
- Animate first pass, applying animation principles and experimenting with techniques to produce the required movements
- Submit first pass for approval to the relevant personnel
- Make adjustments, as required, and refine animation in passes until storyboard requirements are achieved
- Animate facial features with lip-syncing to match the audio and design requirements of the approved storyboard
- Create primary animations, as required
- Finalise the animations
- Export the animations