An animatic is the most important part of a preproduction stage, and it’s an important tool for planning once film. An animatic is a moving storyboard. Technically an animatic is a series of storyboard panels edited together and played in sequence with a scratch sound track or dialogue added to this sequence, to test whether the sound and images work in synchronization or not.

It helps the filmmaker plan the timing of the film in a very precise way, a rough animatic comprises of shots which are animated roughly to get the pace of the shots right and then these shots can be replaced by the final finished shots. This helps the filmmaker reduce the production time as the preplanning is already in place.

Since animation is a tedious process and time consuming, so it’s always better to know which shots work best for the film. An animatic is a very useful tool in this situation.

One can use various software’s available to create an animatic like Toonboom Storyboard Pro, Adobe premiere or Sonyvegas to edit the series of images and sound together.