Preproduction
Preproduction encompasses everything you do before you touch a single polygon of 3D. Story development, storyboarding, a rough sound track, and the assembly of a story reel become the bedrock of the rest of your production. The time you spend here will make the modeling, animating, rendering, and compositing worthwhile.
Before anything else, though, comes the story. Without a good story, your production will be little more than a study or an extended animation test. A “good” story, though, is not only one that will interest or amuse your viewers, it is one that is producible with the time and resources that you have available. Choose too ambitiously, and you’re on your way to “Natural Causes” before a pixel ever hits the screen. ...
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