Chapter 4Soundtracks and… What ’s an Animatic?

Once we’ve got our thumbnails done (mainly for our own planning purposes), and our storyboards completed, colored, and pretty (mainly for the benefit of our clients and/or coworkers — if any), and the layouts/backgrounds done (or sketches handed over to our background designers), we’re ready to move on to the fun part.

Okay, you got me, what about animation isn’t the fun part? (Boy, you are new to this cartooning thing, aren’t you? Oh, wait a minute… that’s why we’re all here. The learning thing… ...

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