An explanation of Staging

Staging in an animation is the process of making an idea clear to the viewer. Staging helps the viewer to correctly see the action and what is actually going on clearly so that they don’t miss any of the action.

This is achieved by a number of different ways. One of these ways is to provide bold colours to the characters/objects involved in the action when the rest of the scene is greyed out etc.

Another way is to have a character moving across the screen in a scene where everything is still. This draws the viewer’s eye to the action of the moving character.

Staging basically helps the animator use different techniques to help the viewer look at the right object at the right time.