From the course: 2D Animation: Tips and Tricks

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Sweatbox notes

Sweatbox notes

From the course: 2D Animation: Tips and Tricks

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Sweatbox notes

- Sweatbox notes are notes written by the director to describe the actions and the technical issues in a given scene. So it will be customary to write sweatbox notes for all of the scenes in the sequence and these notes contain instructions for animators describing what the characters do, actions in the scene, maybe hookup problems, and so on. So let's take a look at this little sequence we have here and focus on scene 040. The numbers you see below them are sequence one, scene 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. The reason why we use these spacements of 10, if we want to add a scene later on, we can call it 25 and then we can make it 23 and so forth. So what I want to do is take sequence one, scene 40 and write a sweatbox note for it. And it would look something like this. So again, it contains the information of the scene we're looking at, and then the physical action. Bumstead is typing on his computer, his head is down. Notice how…

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