Production Bible (What are they? How do they work?)

In today's lecture we were detailed on how Production Bibles work. Production Bibles are a document that should be finished before you go into production of the animation. It's a dossier that displays all of the pre production. These differ from pitch bibles, (which do contain concept art, initial storyboards, style frames, scripts BUT not character turnarounds). Typically these kinds of documents are like gold dust within the public domain because they're the intellectual property of the studio. These are some examples I managed to find from excerpts of online production bibles, this is the kind of imagery we should be aiming for within our teams production bible: Background concept art:

Turnaround:

Expression sheet:

Expression sheets and turnarounds:

Construction model sheet:

This document is not just talk of ideas but a visual representation of how we got to the production phase. Because of this, we must, as a team be sure to screenshot, scan and document every process from now until animation production. This isn't any extra work, as we were already documenting our work from From the notes that I have taken, my team and I have delegated out our responsibilities for the next two weeks. All of this production Bible work, luckily fits into our schedule already

This is a typed up version of our schedule:

As you can see we outlined that the week commencing from November 13th to November 19th was a week in which we would do all of the pre production work:

Here is an example of the first style frame that Alice has made:

The background has been influenced by this video that I included in my blog yesterday:

Whereas the characters are a blend of our moodboard and Rory WT illustrations:

I too have created some style frame designs influenced by some of the research videos I found last week:

I hope that we can stick to the schedule that has been set and manage to create a production bible before our actual production is set to commence.