Making a 2D Animatic is a good way to plan ahead what movements and particular events you want in your animation. I’ve never made a 2D Animatic before, but I must confess I found it to be great fun. I’ve actually gotten a little interest for 2D animation now as well.
A well made 2D Animatic is also a good way to show off your idea. Sometimes words might disturb your vision that made it so fantastic to begin with, and that might make it harder for the listener or reader whom you pitched an idea, to actually take interest. “Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.”-Morpheus inThe Matrix. I wonder how the idea pitch for the movie “Matrix” would have gone without some visionary presentation of any kind? If you have a vision, a story, you have to show it! So you can make like a gazillion dollars, if it turns out someone likes it.
What’s good about a 2D animatic is, that if you change your mind, you can just erase it and draw something else, for free! Instead of working hours on something that doesn’t work out in the end. That would be such a waste of time and effort.
As I mentioned in the last post “Treatment” this is a story about a boy who doesn’t seem to be all too interesting at all, but since I’ve added Edvart Grieg’s King of the Mountain Hall, you know from the beginning that something is coming, and it’s going to be either big, shocking or entertaining. And hopefully you’d want to sit through to the end and see what it was all about.
