Shawn Kelly:

Basic flowchart for animation process: Reference: Modia animation

1st Pass
[BLOCKING]

  • Timing of Action

  • Main Poses

  • Suggest Emotion
    (include rough eye animation)

2nd Pass

  • Breakdown Poses

  • Offset

  • Successive breaking of joints

  • Suggest Overlap & Follow through

3rd Pass

  • Inbetween Poses

  • Finish offsetting body parts

  • Fingers/Toes

  • Check + Adjust arcs

  • Finish Overlap & Follow through

  • Finish Eye animation

  • Foot shuffles (After u have worked out all the major wt shifts in the body u can add foot shuffles. In Cg its very easy for ur character to look like his feet are nailed to the floor, foot shuffles are minor wt shifts. Not necessarily talking a full step, u can treat it kinda like secondary action.)

  • Knees

Final Pass

  • Facial animation

  • Lip sync

  • Muscle animation