ABSTRACT
Thumbnails to a filmmaker are what five-finger exercises are to a pianist or a-b-c is to a writer. Thumbnails are small, expressive sketches that enable filmmakers to quickly get down what occurs to them through their inner, imaginative vision. Thumbnails can be created anywhere at any time—in bed, in the bath, on the bus when an animator is traveling somewhere. Ultimately, animator will ideally have a number of thumbnails for each scene and story moment in his/her film. Just select the ideas that most grab animator , and when he/she have them, paste the thumbnails in order of the script or storyline he/she is developing. Eventually animator will end up with a final thumbnail storyboard, and he/she will be ready to move on to the next production stage, solidifying and defining in greater detail what the thumbnails suggest.
