Vintage animatics are hard to come by, as storyboards were sufficient enough for animators back in the 1930s, however, one of the more popular things to create were animation/pencil tests. These tests were created to help show how characters would be animated and drawn, they vary from having backgrounds, to being full scenes to just being 10 second clips, however, because they are so uncommon I struggled to find examples, below I found one of Brad Bird's earlier Pencil Tests for an unfinished animation, The Spirit (1980).
The Spirit (1980) Pencil Test:
When studios did create animatics, they varied in quality. They were often animated very well however because of financial constraints they were often left intentionally simple, the skill came from getting the idea across with just camera moves, good editing and limited animation.
I have been creating animation tests myself, one of the more similar tests to these would be the fourth test I created. below are a few examples of where the animator has simply created animation tests to show how the characters will be animated on screen.
Piper (1974) Pencil Test:
Again, vintage animatics are somewhat rare and are hard to come across these days. However the process isn't too different to how it is these days, when I begin to create my animatic I will of course take more inspiration from how animatics are created in modern days rather than vintage, as there are more examples of contemporary animatics. However, looking at a variety of animation and pencil tests are very insightful into how the characters were animated before hand, a useful task indeed. As stated in an earlier post, I will begin the animatic process very shortly to show how the film will look.
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