Animatics

In the pre-production the storyboarding stage amy be followed by simplified mock-ups called "animatics" to give a better idea of how the scene will look and feel with motion and timing. An animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence with a rough dialogue and/or rough sound track added to the sequence of still images (usually taken from the storyboard) to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together.

It allows the animators and directors to work out any screenplay, camera positioning, shot list and timing issues that may exist with the current storyboard. Editing the film at the animatic stage can avoid animation of scenes that would be edited out of the film. Animation is usually an expensive process, so there should be a minimum of "deleted scenes" if the film is to be completed within budget.

Often storyboards are animated with simple zooms and pans to simulate camera movement. These animations can be combined with available animatics, sound effects and dialog to create a presentation of how a film could be shot and cut together. Some feature film DVD special features include production animatics.

This is an example of an animatic made for a scene in Iron Man 3 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiZRuOxiCGw

This is my animatic for my short film -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lliaoad4ikY