Have you ever wondered how anime is made?

Well, in this post we are going to discuss about behind the scene process of your favorite animation studios and see how this whole process is done from scratch.

How it all starts?

It all starts off with a script the script is produced by the artist who developed the original manga himself and after a lengthy review process by the director it gets greenlit and goes into production.

Next,

We have storyboards these storyboards include drawing, movements, panning of the camera, and the length of each shot.

Next,

We have layouts for the actual scenery and landscapes that takes place.
First they're drawn on paper and it is reviewed, should we have a tree here? should we have a building here ?and then actually once it is finalized, goes to a landscape department where they used to hand paint them but they don't do it so much anymore, now it has turned into a lot of digital landscapes, but think about old-school Dragonball Z that's all hand painted landscapes and backgrounds and thank New Age one-punch man it is all digital backgrounds.

Now, however sometimes they still do paint in regular acrylics but they'll only do that in a scenario where it's faster or better for some particular reason.

But primarily now it's all digitized because you have all your tools right at hand it's faster cleaner and cheaper.

Next,

We have key animation now what key animators do is they draw the first frame, the middle frame ,and the last frame.
So basically if one guy, say A, was going to kick guy B he'd have him standing there then he'd have middle the kick and then he’d have the kick impacting the guy, three stages.

After the key animation is done for every frame it'll go over to the in-between animators here's something you might find interesting when the key animators are drawing they have to use references so that they get everything correct For Example : if the key animator wants to draw hand he would be using a mirror so that he can look at his hand in order to draw the hand proportion correctly after the key animators are done it goes over to the in-between animators who make sure that that animation is a solid fluid movement by tracking the three pictures that they were given or more and basically drawing the frames in between those in order to give it that motion.

Key animators usually are more amateur they're less expensive a lot of times they're brought in from Korea over in Japan and that is part of the reason that Dragon Ball super episode 5 didn't look great in a lot of those scenes is because it was done by less experienced animators who were brought in to do the heavy lifting on those in-between fluid movement animations.

Now, what you have to understand is that in animation, just a a 30-minuteTV seriesepisode can have as many as 1,500 redrawn pictures in that single episode after all the animations are complete it goes over to compositing.

Compositing is a slew of different departments but primarily it is the coloring studio the shading and this is where they put in and fill all of the lines of the animations that have been created with the correct colors now a lot of these companies have entire departments just for the coloring because it is so time-consuming each of these artists will be given a correct palette of colors to use to ensure that all characters keep and maintain their level and quality of colors throughout the entire animation. Sometimes they'll be in a cave or in a building where there's not as much light and they'll be given a different color palette for the darker shades and that's why sometimes you'll see characters having different shades of color whether it's their clothes or their skin.

Now,

The final stage of production is effects.The effects Department will take the fully drawn animation fully colored with landscapes and everything and now we'll start adding effects whether it's lightening glows or as shading blurs they'll add various effects to ensure that animation looks amazing,like glints on swords and more things than you probably even know.A lot of blurs for certain scenes so that it gives it more of a speed motion.There are so many things that the effects Department does in the end that really adds to the stellar quality of an animation and add those effects that make you love those key moments in that anime.

Finally,

We go to post production which is editing so that the 30 minuteanime is exactly the amount of broadcast time meaning they may have to cut some pieces out.

Now,

The voiceovers are probably one of the more on stages in this entire process you guys probably knew that the voice of Goku is voiced by a woman walking sudhana or underneath it feels old but did you know that the voice of Naruto was - Maile Flanagan