2011 Animation Contest

[Tony.Wu]

Originally Posted by TsUNaMy WaVe

I'm new to that 3D animation thing, do you think I still manage to create a 30sec animation...?
I have experience on animating, but no 3D...

This is basically what goes into a 3D animation

Concept/Script/Storyboard

Modelling

Texturing

Rigging

Animating\Scene Setup

Rendering

Post Production

Submit!

Modelling is creating the objects that you want in your scene. Like props, Characters, Scenery...

To get you started here is a good site to go for tutorials;
http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials-tips

Texturing is "coloring in the models"

Rigging might be a bit painful and time consuming. It's basically setting up the models to be animated. Creating joints and skeletons, degrees of freedom if you like. Pretty much creating the tools you need to animate.

'Animating' is kind of Flash but in 3D.. Key Frames, stuff like that

Then Rendering is taking those scenes you've made and making them into presentable videos. Makes everything in your viewport shinny pretty much.

Feel free to ask any more questions.

Good Luck!