Hollywood to Bollywood
Once the scripts, voices, characters, settings and background designs, animatic, timing and live-action performances have all been completed, the package is exported both digitally and physically to our sub-contracting animation studio in India. This is where the actual animation takes place.An overseas director is appointed and, in conjunction with the show's director and producers, sets up camp at the overseas facility. The overseas director works directly with the animation team while remaining in constant communication with the producers in the States.
One of the great advantages of CGI production is that once the infrastructure is built, it cannot be changed, and, unlike 2D, is not subject to varying artist and studio styles. The 3D process in TV series production has to be extremely disciplined: the script writers need to stay within a widespread but well-defined world - they cannot on a whim go off and create new environments and sets.
The overseas studio is responsible for animating the characters following the storyboard, timing and live-action reference; setting up and following the lighting directions on a scene-byscene basis; rendering and compositing all the elements; and outputting them to either digital broadcast quality tape or DLT drives for shipping back to the US studio. A number of scenes may also, when time is of the essence, be delivered via FTP sites.
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