How is a complete animated movie made? What is the specific production process?What are the software used for 2D, 3D?

There are basically two modes of animation at present, namely 3D animation and 2D animation. And this is a big difference in the production. So it has to be discussed differently.

The basic principle of two-dimensional animation is to play 24 frames per second (frame) image, which is determined by the physiological characteristics of the human eye, because the human eye is able to distinguish the shortest time difference is 0.15 seconds (I forget the specific number), so when the time gap between the two very small changes in the picture successively flashed across the human eye, the visual is not perceived. Every two frames between the picture difference is very small, so a series of images strung together to form a dynamic visual effect. It can be imagined that the production of a large animated film needs to draw how many such continuous picture, an animated feature film is basically about 90 minutes, equivalent to 5400 seconds. An animated movie is basically about 90 minutes, which is equivalent to 5400 seconds. 24 frames per second means that at least 129600 frames have to be drawn. But because many scenes in the background does not need to move, so we can draw the background independently, and to move the image of China in a transparent material on plastic paper, this paper is called celluloid sheet. Of course, this is the traditional two-dimensional production methods, and now have a computer, you can directly from the computer software to produce, without having to buy expensive celluloid sheet. For example, photoshop's layer function is the most suitable for simulating the effect of celluloid film. After processing, and then imported into the professional animation software for post-production, the final sound synthesis output.

Three-dimensional aspect is the application of pure computer technology. For example, the popular 3d max and maya software. The basic principle is to construct a three-dimensional model, so that after the mediation model of the action process, and finally "rendering", this rendering is equivalent to the model put on a variety of materials, such as the character's clothing, wall color, and so on, and finally the sound synthesis output.

Additionally, there is clay puppet animation, which is the largest workload. The basic principle is to produce a number of different movements in the shape of the character, different expressions of the clay dolls, and then placed in the scene, shoot a picture, change an expression or action in the shoot a picture, has been lined up to the length of the movie you want 。。。。 So it's hard work, doing animation.

Of course, there is currently a relatively amateur animation software flash, this market tutorials a lot, I will not dwell on it. Note: flash also belongs to the category of two-dimensional animation, because its visual effect is a flat painting. But the production method and process is much simpler than professional software, so the visual effect is also much less.