Animation - Critical Sequence  (3d modeller, video editor, audio)
Pre-production
Script - resource, revise, edit, adapt
Characters, Props ands Scenes - Conceive, Design, Build

Production
Setup

1 Establish file structure - folders for: characters, props, backdrops, animation/movement, dialogue/sound effects/backing music, avi footage.
2 Devise file naming and numbering convention.
3 Using video editor create blank Shots/scenes, to plan overall length of video
4 Establish standard font & position for on screen information display (top & bottom)
5 Insert scene number reference to dialogue & script into frame display


Storyboard - Creating Stills

1 Insert dialogue text within frame display
2 Insert notes on direction and audio effects/sound track in frame display
3 Record and add basic audio dialogue to AVI footage in video editor
4 Insert basic characters into modelled scene - no movement
5 Render to AVI in outline (very low resolution)
6 Requirements: Basic character models, No colour, No props or backdrop

Layout

1 Position characters in relation to each other, position scenery and props
2 Set camera angle, frame and compose shots
3 Devise and model movement, where appropriate e.g. essential character gestures, and camera tracking
4 Characters rendered in flat mapping (low resolution)
5 Requirements, basic characters, props and backdrop, no colour, frame information

Motion

1 Finalise motion/animation (characters, props, cameras, lighting)
2 Lip sync to final audio dialogue
3 Composite detailed characters, props & scene 
4 Colour based on procedural shaders
5 Render to video - smooth mapping - medium resolution
6 Add audio to video - final dialogue, sound effects 
7 Remove dialogue text within frame display
8 Overview of composition checking for flow between shots
9 Requirements, No lighting, no UV mapping

Lighting, Audio, Textures and Final Render

1 Full texture UV mapping of characters
2 Use of shaders and mapping on props
3 Full audio edit - voices/dialogue, sound effects, backing music
4 Set lighting
5 Remove frame information
6 Final high resolution render