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ln-betweened Drawing Requirements

1.0 Learning Outcomes

 Identify requirements for in-between drawings

1.1 Introduction

ln-betweening is the process wherein the remaining drawings are completed and
inserted in between two key drawings. This is done by the inbetween artist or the
inbetweener. In order to begin this process, the inbetween artist needs to be supplied
with work contained in an animation folder. In some production or studio set up, both
the clean-up and in-betweening is done by the same artist. It's easier to monitor by
doing the production this way.

1.2 Topics/Discussion
1.2.1 ln-betweened Drawing Requirements

To start with ln-betweened drawing process, it is necessary to have

the requirements available before doing the process. The following is a list
of the ln-betweened requirements:

Animation Folder
This folder contains the relevant section of the storyboard, the lay-
out drawings together with the director's instructions, a copy of the
exposure sheets with the soundtrack breakdown, the model sheets and the
cleaned-up key animation drawings.
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The usual label written on top of this Animation

folder indicates the full information of all its contents. These usually are
the following: Episode title, episode number, scene number, footage/
frames, names of the artists for each department that would work on it,
names of supervisors or directors who checked it, cell contents or the
number of drawings inside and camera instructions. This ensures that
accidental lost drawings can be returned to its corresponding folders. It
also ensures the return of folder to the corresponding artist or supervisor
for possible fix up or retake.

Storyboard
Is a series of small consecutive drawings drawn in panels plotting
key movements in an animation narrative or script. It is sometimes
accompanied by caption like dialogue, action and timing. Key
backgrounds are used to mark the flow of scenes over a certain location
sequence. Time of day, sound effects, special effects used is also
indicated in the particular panel it is
needed.

Lay-out Drawing
Is a detailed visual breakdown of each and every scene in the
storyboard. The lay-out drawing indicates the camera angles & field guide
size used, the characters involved, costumes they are wearing, the
character's size comparison and props used. Background used per
sequence is also planned and time of day is indicated.
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Model Sheets
A black & white or colored standard illustration of a character used
for the entire show. This will be fully referred to by all artists involved in
the production. This includes turnaround, facial expressions, key poses,
walk cycle and mouth chart for lip-sync guide. Even the props, drawing
for special effects used and the key backgrounds should have a model
sheet.
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Exposure Sheets
Commonly called the "Xsheets" is considered as the universal
compass or "Bible" for animators. It's a document that contains all the
information needed to create the scene up to the total number of drawings
to be done. These Xsheet s are produced by the timing director who will
use the instructions & information written on the storyboard and animatic
together with phonetically broken sound, to mark out instructions for the
movement of every single character.

Director's Instructions
Are brief instructions to the lay-out artist and animators before they
begin to work on the section of the show allocated to them. Usually
written on the first column of the exposure sheet, it covers instructions for
character layout and action, backgrounds to use, underlay/ overlays or
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held of an eel if any, and a field guide showing

the size of the area and positioning that the camera's field of vision.

Soundtrack Breakdown
It's one of the level or columns in the exposure sheet that indicates
the dialogue of the character and the corresponding mouth code to be
used. This is written vertically going downwards. It's preferably in lip-
sync shape instruction for sound reading like using the Phonetic sound
opening or the use universal mouth codes such as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, 0
etc. The soundtrack breakdown is usually written as per the sound they
produce and not by their spelling. For example, FLOWER is written as
FLA-Wur; GOOSE is written as GOO-s, GRACE is written as GRA-Ys,
STONE is written as STO-wn.
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Clean-up Key Animation Drawings

It's a process of putting the character on model as per the model
sheet required, removing any unnecessary pencil marks, tidying up lines
and transforming it into a good, clean, singled line drawing. This is
usually performed by the assistant animator or commonly called the
clean-up artist. Assistant animators are skilled professionals who are
more experienced than in-between artists but less experienced than
animators.
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1.3 References
 https://www.tesda.gov.ph/

1.4 Acknowledgment
The images, tables, figures and information contained in this module were
taken from the references cited above.