The Very Basic Steps of Making an Animation Movie

Animation is one of the fastest-changing and most rewarding platforms to showcase one's creativity level. There are many professionals and upcoming animators who are work day and night to secure a position for themselves in the ever burgeoning market of cartoons and animations. Here, one can easily satiate his creative spirits by working for various TV programs, advertisements, commercials and computer games.

Early examples of animation work started appearing around 1910. At this time normal drawings were photographed one at a time to create a short animation clipping. Well, this traditional method was a very intensive and long drawn out process. Here hundreds of drawings were used for each minute of a short film. In recent times, it has been found that the animation industry is constantly evolving and creating easier and better ways to animate. Now it has become possible to make an animation movie sitting at home with the help of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork.

Here's an outline to help you make your own animation movie:
-Before drawing anything, figure out the basic theme of your movie. Will it be a comedy or action packed? Imagine your characters and then develop a plot.

- Now create a storyboard. It is not necessary to have the drawings of your storyboard to be the perfect ones. Rough drawings will do at this stage.

- A neatly laid out script is a must to give life to the characters of your storyline. Hence first write a script. Make sure to include everything as every small detail counts. Give stress on dialogues.

- Now conceptualize and write in detail the profiles of the various characters. It will help you to develop the story further.

- With the script ready, you are ready to begin the real animation work. Decide the animation technique you want to use. You can choose between flipbooks and the traditional method. While flipbooks are cost effective, it has several drawbacks such as absence of sound facility and limited film length.

On the other hand, traditional animation is time consuming and costly but it guarantees great quality. Apart from these two options, you can always use animation software. The various animation software programs come with easy to understand interface, different menus, palettes and toolbars etc.

-Once you are finished with developing the movie, it's time to edit it. Editing is very crucial to come up with quality product. All the minute errors can be mended at this stage.

-Show the final product to your family, friends, teachers or mentors and make note of their viewpoints regarding the movie. If they have any good suggestions regarding the movie which you find will make the animation film more entertaining and appealing do incorporate the ideas and make necessary changes.

-Now the animation movie is ready to be marketed. Well, for marketing you would need plenty of copies. The best way to do this is through CD/DVD replication or duplication. Both replication and duplication are reliable methods to copy your master disc into a number of copies. Depending upon how many copies you want to release in the market, you can choose between CD or DVD duplication or replication. Replication is usually the preferred method if you require more than 1000 units. There are many reputed companies providing CD/DVD duplication or DVD replication services.

- After the DVD replication or duplication job is over, think about the packaging part too. To make a positive impression amongst your buyers it is essential to package your product well. Some leading CD and DVD duplication and replication services providers also offer good quality on disc printing and CD packaging solutions.

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Actors Making Bank - The Latest on Hollywood's Earners & Burners

Clearly, there's money to be made in Hollywood as an actor or actress. You don't even have to be an A-list commodity to make a decent living, although it's helpful. After all, who wouldn't want to be paid millions of dollars just to do whatever it is you do best?

In Hollywood money is tossed around like it was being printed by Milton Bradley. Top actors and actresses are making 8-figure salaries up front, with a piece of the action on the backend if the film makes money. Sometimes those salary figures make people crazy, but when put into perspective they somehow - almost - make sense.

Will Smith tops Hollywood's list of highest paid actors, making $80 million from his last four studio films. More than just a small pile of cash by any standard. However, those four films - Seven Pounds, Hancock, I Am Legend, and The Pursuit of Happyness - made nearly $1.7 BILLION dollars at the box office, worldwide. This does not include DVD sales, which can be as much as three times box office figures!

Here's the bottom line: you, me, and everyone we know would invest $80 million to get a return of $1.7 billion every day of the week if we could, because that's a massive return on investment, and that's the business of Hollywood studios. Will Smith's $80 million paycheck wound up being less than 5% of his films' grosses. Any way you slice it, he's a bargain and probably underpaid.

On the flipside of that coin is the most overpaid actor in Hollywood. Those honors go to Will Farrell. What is it with all these Wills? Seems that Farrell makes $1 for every $3 his films make at the box office. That'd be the mark of smashing success if the films in which he stars actually made money. Will Farrell made $20 million for Land of the Lost, which, well, lost at the box office. The film barely grossed $65 million, worldwide, which wouldn't be too bad if it hadn't cost more than $100 to make.

So, what would earning $1 for every $3 made at the box office mean for Will Smith? Add another zero to the end of his $80 million and you'd be right on track. See, now doesn't the math of Hollywood actually add up? Well, it makes sense to me. I just gotta figure out how to get a piece of it now!

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