ABSTRACT
All of animation is teamwork including storyboarding. Storyboarding and creating animatics is always a collaborating effort and, besides that, has a lot to do with the performance to be seen later on screen. The real duty of an animation producer is to get the best artists on board and create an atmosphere of total freedom so that the artists can rise and find complete expression. Producer Merian C. Cooper claimed that he often would have acted scenes out to show the animators how to move Kong. Contrary to live-action filmmaking, 3D animators rarely have directors behind them while shooting or animating. And in 2D animation, one can rarely see directors go through animation cubicles. If they are hired hands, they just turn up from time to time. Animators are mainly left to themselves. It's the same with stage actors.
