THE LIbrary

ANIMATION
PRODUCTION BIBLE
by Nammi Eu
contents
CONCEPT 2
SYNOPSIS 3
CHARACTER DESIGN & PROFILES
Arron 4
Becky 6
Craig 8
Dan 1 0
TREATMENT 12
STORY 14
MARKETING PITCH 15
COLLECTED RESEARCH 16
SAMPLE STORYBOARD 18
SAMPLE COLOUR MODEL 22
SET DESIGN 24
PRODUCTION SCHEDULE 27

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 concept synopsis

During an early afternoon there are four people at a library; a

student who is taking a day off beause of his cold, an old man who
Three people are at a library, each wanting to spend a quiet just had lunch and is reading a newspaper, a man who has to print off
afternoon. The library staff must kepp the library as an environment his CV before his interview later in the afternoon, and a staff who is
where everyone can happily enjoy the silence. determined to keep the library a quiet place.

When the old man starts to doze off, it starts to annoy everyone.

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 Age: 22
aRron Occupation: Student
Background: A student who has a cold and has taken his day off to read leisurely
at the library. He sniffs, sneezes and coughs without considering much about other
people.

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 Age: 25
becky Occupation: Librarian
Character Situation: A staff at the library who is determined to maintain a
quiet environment. She takes her job seriously and thinks she should be the one
who take control of the whole library.

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 Age: 33
craig Occupation: Unemployed
Character Situation: A man who has recently been fired from a company. He
has to write a new CV and print it off to attend an interview taking place later in
the afternoon.

HP Passport 1912nm
Internet Monitor

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 Age: 77
dan Occupation: Retired
Character Situation: An old man who just had a big lunch at a caf and is too
tired to walk back home. He takes a sofa and grabs a newspaper at the library to
spend a few hours before he can go home.

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 AUDIO ELEMENTS: The ambient sound of the library will be used from
TREATMENT beginning to the ending. Each character will make
different sounds to represent their action. The sounds
WORKING TITLE: The Library
will either be recorded by myself or selected from
GENRE: Short Animation existing online recordings.

DURATION: 2 Minutes
VISUAL ELEMENTS: Each character will be drawn in solid lines that
TARGET AUDIENCE: People in their early teen years to young adulthood separate them from the background. The movement
of background elements will be kept to minimal. They
OBJECTIVE: Set in a library, this animation aims to explore how a will be static unless they are directly associated with
small sound from one person can affect others in a character movements.
quiet environment. As the characters originally come
from a series of animation exercises, this project also
RESEARCH: Research should be done by observing my
aims to improve my 2D animation skills in character surroundings and acting out different situations
animation. myself. Looking at other films can help me identify
TECHNIQUES: Each scene will be animated in 2D frame-by-frame different cinematic techniques I can make use of.
method using TVPaint, then edited together in
Premiere Pro adding some camera movements such as REQUIREMENTS Most of the sounds should be recorded in order to use
zooming in/out and panning. & RESOURCES: them on the timeline in the right timing. Others can be
selected from online recordings. Acting might have to
be recorded to be used as reference materials.
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 story
Four people are at a library during an early afternoon. Each person is in
1. their own area reading and writing on their own. One of the four, an old
marketing pitch
man reading the newspaper, starts to doze off and snores which makes
everyone jump. The library staff wakes him up.

The librarian puts the books in the shelves, which makes a repetitive
2. sound. Listening to the sound while reading the paper, the old man
dozes off again. On the other side, the man in suits gets absorbed The animation aims to appeal to people in their early teen years to young
into writing. Every time the old man snores, he makes a mistake and adulthood, and anyone who is able to appreciate silence and can relate
presses backspace repeatedly. The sniffing student moans every time he to the moments in quiet places where the tinest noise can be irritating.
hears others making noises, and coughs. The librarian gives all of them
warnings.

The four people hear noises coming from the construction site outside
3. the library. The librarian goes outside to stop the noise, and the rest of
the people remain silent for a while. When the librarian comes back and
starts to put the books back, the others start to make noise again.

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Kirkwood Benton
Hall Library

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Ohio Township Public Library

Salt Spring
Island Public
Library

Warren Heights Public Library

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Sample Storyboards

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sample Colour model
Set design

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 production schedule: January 2017

Library ground plan Outside the library ground plan

Production Revision
Bible Crit

Finish Finalise Script Start Animatic

Storyboard & Start
Recording

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production schedule: February 2017 production schedule: march 2017

Finish Animatic Start Finish Key Breakdown &

Ver. 1 Recording Animation Inbetweening
Sound

Finish Animatic Digital Finish Animatic

Ver. 2 Production Ver. 3
Bible Hand-In

Dope Sheet Start Key Interim Crit Revision

Animation

Video & Sound Finalise Film FMP Deadline

Editing

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