I absolutely love creating storyboards. When I was younger, I used toilet roll and a soft pencil to create makeshift storyboards. Each wipe was a frame. What can I say? We were a poor family... I love comic strips which you can achieve things differently to the storyboard process, and vice versa. You can achieve things differently with a storyboard too.

Storyboards are the skeleton of which an animation's skin hangs. They're great for visualizing how your animation will appear in terms of how it is framed, how it will cut and move through shots, placement of cameras, characters, environments and more. Now while it is all well and good on the drawn page, you would get more of an idea if someone cut from frame to frame for you instead of you roughly moving your eyes from frame to frame.

This is where animatics come in. Animatics are a first valuable look at your animation in motion. Now this is exciting for any animator... I'll talk you through the process!