Animatics are storyboards which have been brought to live using pre-visual 3D animation. Animatics show us the timing and passing of each shot giving us a brief idea of what it will look like when it is filmed. This allows the animators and directors to work out any timing issues or camera shots that may not work well. The animatic may be reviewed and changed many times until the storyboard is perfected. A strength of using animatics is that it can prevent scenes in which you would have edited out of the film. One weakness of using animatics is that it is very expensive and time consuming.
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Storyboards
A storyboard is an animated production of a film made up of written words and images similar to a comic strip. It is the outline or skeleton of a film. It show cases the camera shots and angles which will be used, the characters positions and the direction the character is moving in pointed out by arrows. It is very important that the storyboard shows each frame which makes up the film.
This is a storyboard taken from 'The Simpsons'
'Lord Of The Rings' is such a successful and mainstream film meaning any mistakes to filming could cost valuable time and money. Peter Jackson, the director used both storyboards and animatics to plan out the film. The animatics showed the storyboard with very limited motion conveying camera movement and action accompanied by the soundtrack. This gave the animators and directors a outline of how the real film would look. It also gave them time to rethink certain ideas and to get rid of things that didn't work well. The storyboard in which they drew up gave them a basic draft of the scenes leading to the Recce where they walked through the scene experimenting with camera shots, angles and the characters movement.
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