Who does the animation start for a TV show? How many scripts are written for a single episode? What even is an animation pipeline? These are some questions one might ask wondering how a 2D animation episode is made. In this blog post, I’ll be giving a breif overview of the animation pipeline for a 2D show. The animation pipeline can have a ton of moving parts happening simultaneously. It can be confusing to understand how the pipeline works and every studio has a slightly different pipeline from one another. To make matters a bit more difficult to explain exactaly what the animation pipeline is, within each studio, every production functions differently as well. If you work on differnt shows, you’ll soon find yourself re-learning the pipeline designed for that specfic show. What I will be explaining below is a general pipeline that a 2D show roughly follows. This will give you a basic understanding of animation and how a 2D episode is created from inception to completion.
How To Get Into The Animation Industry
So you want to know how to get into the animation industry. Whether you’re an artist or someone who just loves cartoons and want to be apart of the industry in some way, Im going to be sharing with you 6 tips to help you get your foot in the door.
But before we start, a little bit about myself. My name is Eric Bravo and I’ve interned with Warner Bros, Nickelodeon & DreamWorks on the movie Penguins of Madagascar. I recently made a cartoon short with Nickelodeon called The Outsiders as the creator & writer as part of their shorts program. Click here if you’d like to see it! And I am currently in my dungeon (the process) of coming up with more ideas for cartoons.
Now that you know a little bit about myself and my background, let’s begin!
How to Get Into the Animation Industry Without an Animation Background
CJ at Nickelodeon's Thursday Think with guest speaker and head of Viacom Cyma Zargham
Christopher John Kinyon, or "CJ," has such an interesting and amazing life. CJ has been breakdancing for over 20 years, have traveled the world, once broke his neck, and has even been on ABC's show, Wipeout and winning the first place prize of $50,000 in 2009. And to top it off, he's been working at Nickelodeon Animation Studios for over 7 years.
“People think of me as the mascot of Nickelodeon since I don’t hold back my extreme happiness for life”