Storyboard a whiteboard animation before you animate
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A storyboard is the first honest test of an animation idea. A sentence may sound clear in a script, yet still be difficult to show. A drawing may look attractive on its own, yet add nothing to the explanation. Storyboarding exposes those problems while they are still inexpensive to fix.
For a Scribe Animator project, the storyboard should do more than sketch a sequence of pictures. It should describe the relationship between narration, scenes, objects, draw order, camera framing, and time. That makes it a working production map rather than a decorative approval document.