How to Make Animated Movies

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Part of the video series: Animation Careers

Summary: Animated movies require a whole team of people working together on the various aspects of the film, including the story writing, the character development, the drawing, the animation and the editing. Understand what it takes to create a complete movie in animation with helpful information from a writer, director and animator in this free video on cartoon animation.

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By Tim Hodge
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Contact: timothyhodge.blogspot.com/

Tim Hodge is a writer, director and animator in Nashville, Tenn. After years as an animator and story artist with Walt Disney Feature Animation, Hodge most recently wrote and directed...read more

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"If you are going to make an animated movie the first thing I suggest is to watch the credits on one of your favorites and realize how many people actually worked on it. Cause it's something that's just going to be very difficult to do by yourself. So get a lot of friends who also like to animate and again just like working on a short film you have to start with a really good story. Because that's what is going to keep your audience interested. After that it's a lot of the same processes as anything else. Starting with pencil and paper and creating thousands upon thousands upon thousands of drawings to create the movement. Or if you are working in, on a computer to create frame after frame after frame. Every scene build them together to create a very enjoyable plot. Obviously you are going to need to work with some actors too to get your voices down so you will need to record your actor's reciting their lines from the script you've written. And give those prerecorded voices to the animators to sync up the dialog and to animate to the speech patterns. Once you get everything done and either paint it if you are doing it traditionally, or rendered if you are doing it in a computer. You'll want to get all your shots edited together and create a score. And find somebody that writes music for you. And once you get it all together, find a good theater that will distribute it for you."