ABSTRACT
An animatic is quite simply the filming of the finished storyboard in synchronization with the final soundtrack. Technically, it is a very easy process, but creatively it is very challenging, as the animatic is the foundation on which everything else in an animator's film will be built. Anyone who owns the fantastic Spirited Away movie on DVD will note that as an extra feature there is effectively the entire film animatic that was created before the animation was begun. Bacher Boards can be created at any time in the pre-production stages of a film of course but usually they will be best applied somewhere between the Animatic stage and the Color Script/Background painting stage. Indeed, even color storyboards can begin as simple, low value, Bacher Boards initially, to establish underlying visual needs for each shot, before color is applied to create mood, emotion, and dramatic intention.
