Traditional Animation Training Days - Part I

My Own 12-Field "PRO-GRADE" Acrylic Animation Disc
that I've bought from Cartoon Colour for $300
on Christmas 2012 -- Notice the
Red-and-Yellow Sharpie Marker Decor on
the "top" and "bottom" sliding "Acme" peg bars and, yes,
the Bancy Studios sticker logo on the top sliding pegbar
(Sorry that the "Bancy Studios" sticker logo is covered by
a sheet of 12-Field animation paper with a hand-drawn
"Don Bluth"-style TV cut-off/Theater cut-off matte frame
("The Outer 4x3 Frame is what Older TVs will see but
Theaters will crop the top and bottom off IF they're using
widescreen! -- Television will cut off, so will the theaters")

Finally, Here I've Typed Up a Little Something (well, after finally having my "tradigital" animated student cartoon short film entitled "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate" out of the Bancy Studio vault and into production at my "animation" division at Kit Young Center in Jackson, Michigan) is actually Part One of My Blog Journal on "My Traditional Animation Training Days" for Animator's Sake!

The "Tools of the Trade" to make my very own 8-minute hand-drawn animated cartoon in Red/Cyan Anaglyph 3D are --

1. A 12-Field Guide from Cartoon Colour (NTSC Full Screen -- I Used to have the 16x9 Widescreen Chromacolour 12-Field Guide with the "falsified" Acme Peg Holes but, that exact same Chromacolour 12-Field Guide was Missing in Action! OH NO!!)
2. 7,000 Sheets of 12-Field ACME-Punched Animation Paper -- Notice that the "12-Field" Size is 10-1/2 inches by 12-1/2 inches for Animator's Sake!))
3. "Toon Boom Storyboard Pro" Software (for Digital Storyboard Sketching)
4. 50 RED Prismacolor "Col-Erase" Pencil for the "rough drawings"
5. 50 Graphite Pencils in both Dixon "Ticonderoga" and Palomino "Blackwing" Brands to tie down the drawings ("Half the Pressure" and "Twice the Speed" on all Blackwing Pencils!)
6. 50 Non-Permanent "Paper-Mate Flair" Felt-Tip Pens (Just the "Ultra Fine" point tip size for doing "clean-up animation drawings")
7. 5 "Latex-Free" Kneaded Erasers (for those that have "latex allergies" that is!)
8. An "RPS Lighting RS-C920" Line Tester Copy Stand with working HD Webcam for Mac Users (to "shoot animation drawings into my MacBook Pro laptop computer using "DigiCel FlipBook" software)
9. "DigiCel FlipBook" Software for Mac Users (Someday during 2015 to 2016, I'll Upgrade My "Mac OS X" Copy of "DigiCel FlipBook" from its "Lite" version to the student animator/junior animator-friendly "Studio" version when I have the money to do so)
10. "iMovie" Video Editing Software for Post-Production "Online Video Editing"
11. Aiseesoft Technologies' "3D Converter" App to convert 2D to Anaglyph 3D (IF I'm Using My Own Red/Cyan anaglyph "BancySCOPIX 3D" Process?)
12. Packages of Blank "DVD+R" Video Discs for Exporting The Final Cut to DVD complete with Red/Cyan "BancySCOPIX 3D" Glasses purchased from the Rainbow Symphony Store!!!

And, to make my own 8-minute hand-drawn animated cartoon in BancySCOPIX 3D, with my "tools of the trade" already listed above,...




...Here's My Own Hand-Drawn Animation Process IF I'm using My Own Red/Cyan Anaglyph "BancySCOPIX 3D" Process --

Remember This Digitally-Colored Drawing
of Mr. Jinks the Cat as a layout artist working on
the character designs for "Scooby-Doo"
that was hand-drawn on pencil and paper before being
scanned into a computer for digital coloring for
the now-defunct "Funamation" website which guides
Hanna-Barbera fans to explore the H-B traditional
animation process originally updated in The Mid-1960's
until the "analog" age of Hanna-Barbera animation
was upgraded with Digital Ink & Paint software and
computers altogether taking over the ink and paint step
in the early 2000's shortly before the merge with
Warner Bros. Animation???

1. Script Treatment
2. Scratch Track Dialogue Recording (for Storyboard Reel)
3. Storyboard
4. Voice Recording
5. Track Reading (on Exposure Sheets a.k.a. X-Sheets or Dope Sheets)
6. Layout Design (on Characters and Backgrounds)
7. Ruff Animation (Rough Drawings)
8. Rough Pencil Test
9. Clean-Up Animation (Cleaned-Up Drawings)
10. Final Pencil Test
11. Background Scanning and Digital Background Painting
12. Animation Scanning
13. Digital Color Model Design
14. Computerized Ink & Paint and Digital Compositing
15. Online Film Editing and Post-Production Sound
16. Export to Digital Video File and 2D-to-3D Converting (in both Red/Cyan "BancySCOPIX" and Magenta/Green "Trioscopics" Versions via Aiseesoft's "3D Converter" App)
17. Post-Production Final Video Editing on 3D Versions of that average "Bancy" cartoon that would've been the "Final Cut"
18. Digital Film Transfer to DVD using Blank "DVD+R" Discs with matching 3D Glasses (The First Half of "Red/Cyan" 3D Glasses and the other of "Magenta/Green" 3D Glasses)

The 8-Minute Hand-Drawn Animated "BancySCOPIX 3D" Cartoon I'm Planning to work on is something called "The Untitled BancySCOPIX 3D Cartoon Project" which will start pre-production from Spring 2015 until Summer 2018! (or Autumn 2018 or Spring 2019?)