Owl City Hanson Animatic #art #characterdesign #drawingstyle

Name: Owl City Hanson Animatic #art #characterdesign #drawingstyle
Uploaded: 2025-01-25T16:30:11+00:00
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: In this instructional video, Ryan Maloney emphasizes that animation hinges on precise timing, which can only be validated through quick testing with…

25 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this instructional video, Ryan Maloney emphasizes that animation hinges on precise timing, which can only be validated through quick testing with rough animatics. He outlines his end‑to‑end workflow: generate ideas, log them in a spreadsheet, then create animatics directly in Adobe Animate (or on iPad using Procreate or FlipaClip). The animatics are intentionally low‑fidelity, serving as a timing reference for music or voice‑over. Once timing is locked, he screenshots the animatic frames to produce storyboards, assigning each scene a unique alphanumeric code that matches entries in the spreadsheet. Production then proceeds scene‑by‑scene by following a checklist derived from the spreadsheet, ensuring consistent timing and organization throughout the video creation process.

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Animation is all about timing, and you never know if the timing of animation is right until you test it out. The way I test it out quickly is by creating really rough and quick animatics. I'll spend a lot of time coming up with the ideas for animated videos, but once I get them on paper, I put them into a spreadsheet, and then I start to make storyboards and animatics. Usually I create these in Adobe Animate. I have created a lot in Procreate and FlipaClip on the iPad too. The drawings in your animatic do not need to be pretty at all. This is mostly for you and the client to see. A lot of times I'll see people making storyboards and then turning those into animatics. That can work, but what I like to do is create the animatic directly in Adobe Animate and get the timing down to the music or voiceover, whatever type of video you're making. And then once the animatic timing is done, I will screenshot that and turn it into storyboards so you can see Each one of these scenes has a number with a letter that will go into a spreadsheet. And then to create the video, I'll just follow this checklist in the spreadsheet and create each one of these scenes.