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Did any animatics shot make it all the way through to the final film in Episode I?
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Answered by: David Dozoretz
Animatics are generally very rough and done very quickly. They look more like a video game than real-life. So it's not appropriate that they end up in the final film. That said, there were many final shots in Episode I that were very similar to their animatic counterpart. George had us take some of the animatics to such a high level of specificity that the final shots were just photo-real versions of the exact same action. If you put the animatic and the final version of the Podrace on two television monitors next to each other, you'll see that the action is almost identical between the two and the cuts happen in the same place. That's the beauty of animatics -- it lets the filmmakers know exactly how the final shots should look as far as composition, timing, action, etc.
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