Says Vaibhav, "Animatics is a very exciting part of animation film making. It is here that we test various performances and interactions. It also is a sort of a dry run which gives an idea of the overall feel/ story flow/tempo of the film.

Even in Stop Motion where the actual models have to be made and shot frame by frame, the animatics which is done using 2d sketches is very important. It helps us make all the changes we want in advance before we start the actual production work.

For Pandu Mangal, we had come up with a lot of variations for a number of shots, the animatics stage helped us review the film as a whole and we eliminated quite a lot of frames. Some of which were quite intesresting, yet had to be removed in order to maintain the pace of the film and also to tell the story best within the given time of 40sec.