An Overview of the Short Animation Process - Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish - page 3

Figure 1.2 Several digital storyboards

animation, but the more time you spend on
it, the less effort will be wasted later when
it's time to actually animate.

With your storyboards in hand (or on
disk), you create a simple, very rough
soundtrack. This is most easily done by sit-
ting in front of an inexpensive PC micro-
phone and speaking all of the dialog and
making the sound effects with your mouth
while you visualize the animation. It's cru-
cial not to let anyone get their hands on
this rough track because it will probably
be personally embarrassing and most likely
cost you any chance of ever running for
political offi ce.

Figure 1.3 Storyboards assembled with a soundtrack