Sunday, 8 February 2009

Animatic / story reel

Once a storyboard has been finalized and all the bad and sloppy ideas cosigned to the waste-paper basket, its time to see if the storyboard actually works as a film. To do this, an animatic is created.

The animatic is a movie that runs in sequence and is paced out in the same way as the final film, but unlike the final film the animatic consists not of animation, but only of the stills drawn up for your storyboard.

Reasons for creating an animatic include..

To get a good idea if the animation is going to cut together well and make sense as a filmic narrative.
To present to a potential buyer or producer etc
A lot of time/effort/money can be saved.
Problems with the narrative can be fixed before production begins.

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