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animatic

noun
an·​i·​mat·​ic | \ ËŒa-nÉ™-ˈma-tik How to pronounce animatic (audio) \
plural animatics

Definition of animatic

: a preliminary sequence of shots, images, or sketches (as for a movie or an animated television program) that is filmed or arranged usually with a sound track and viewed to determine its effectiveness before being finalized The final step before the material gets sent across the Pacific Ocean is an animatic of the episode, a filming of the layout drawings that gives a rudimentary sense of how the show will move. There's no color and the movements are, at best, jerky, but the animatic gives the producers a chance to see how the drawings and voices work together.— Joe Rhodes, Entertainment Weekly, 18 May 1990

First Known Use of animatic

1977, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for animatic

probably blend of animated and schematic entry 2

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