Hatching a plan

by Muvizu_Admin in News

All you Muvizuers know only too well the difference that a well constructed story can make to an animation. Thorough planning really can make all the difference. The storyboard has always played a key role in this as a key visualisation tool for animation and film production.

Here's how some of the world's most admired animators tackle it.

Here at Muvizu, MD Barry has been driving the creation of Muvizu since it was a simply drafted, pencil sketch of an egg. When the team here were 'down' in the Muvizu archives recently we found ourselves re-watching the fabulous "Geraldo and the Plan" created by Barry back in 2010.
At the time Barry also created one of Muvizu's first 'making of' blogs to share some of his approach to animating using Muvizu and some of the tools he uses.

"Geraldo and the Plan" was fairly ambitious, with over 60 shots and a musical number. A few people asked him how it was made so he decided to share some of the steps to making the next episode which was tentatively called, "Geraldo in Stockholm". We think it still makes interesting reading.

One of the really great things about Muvizu is that you ARE able to just dive in and play with different ways to tell your story. But Geraldo reminded us that planning does still play an important part in the success of any great project.

Those of you who have made Muvizu animations you are proud of might like to share what it was about your process that you think contributed to their success or any tricks you have hidden up your sleeves?


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  1. MrDrWho13 Muvizu mogul Experimental user
    • MrDrWho13 - Over a year ago
    • My Halloween video had quite a lot of planning.
      I also made use of walking through walls to make the villain appear.
  2. Dylly Muvizu mogul Experimental user
    • Dylly - Over a year ago
    • Planning played an essential role in the two Muvizu animations I most proud of, the Muvizu Monster and Stitched in Time Team. Both made use of the most important bit of kit you can invest in...a pencil and paper, or in my case one of those Black and Red bound notebooks. Writing out the script is essential, but most of my animations are music lead, so I spend a long time finding the right music and then rehearsing, sound daft, but I practice voices & character movement physically.
  3. Carole Muvizu staff
    • Carole - Over a year ago
    • Doesn't sound daft at all Dylly! You are talking to the woman who locks herself away to read anything lengthy she writes out loud to make sure it 'flows'. I'm all for mixing up ways to test stuff.

      And you're right about the good old pencil and paper too - totally retro - and completely reliable and foolproof!
  4. fullmetall
    • fullmetall - Over a year ago
    • alut Carole
      l'idée d'écrire un script ne m'a jamais effleuré l'esprit, tout comme pour la musique je mets des notes et on voit ce qui sort, technique de l'empirisme absolu. Je suis plus guidé par la curiosité que par le fait de raconter une histoire et en bon consomateur de l'ephemere, il est tres rare que je dépasse 1 minute d'animation.
      le probleme c'est que vous avez raison et que je manque de temps, il me faut 10 heures pour une vidéo musique comprise donc....
      @+ salutations
  5. sanjana
    • sanjana - Over a year ago
    • why cant i download it properly?? whenever i try it downloads half and when i open it ,a box appears which says incomplete doenload..file cannot be opend...i wannt this software