The key essence of any good 3D short film depends on the concept and ideation, this creative process is time taking hence a team of experts design the preproduction which is then shared with the participating teams, thereby giving it a studio flavor.
Every participating team will be given a unique preproduction package thus providing them an experience of working at a studio level preproduction. The preproduction is carefully crafted keeping in mind, that the execution of production process should be completed in a time span of 100 hrs.
Participating teams needs to adhere to the preproduction shared with them and cannot alter or add elements in mentioned packet.
A detailed storyboard is shared which each of the teams which is a graphic representation of how your video will unfold, shot by shot. It's made up of a number of squares with illustrations or pictures representing each shot, with notes about what's going on in the scene and what's being said in the script during that shot.
Each story board is then converted into animatics. Animatics are created by using storyboards and voiceovers for dialogue. The animatic helps to visualize what the final product will look like and it is the most important document for the animators to ensure that they do justice to the concept.