Since we had our basic storyboard and cyclic animations we would be using done, we moved onto the next planning stage which is the animatic. An animatic is much like a storyboard but animated to show timing and movement so animators better understand how long each pose should be.
UPDATE: Our first animatic was timed around the music which meant that timings for animations were way out of proportion. While we were quite happy to keep the music, we need to base the music around the animatic instead. Therefore we created a revised animatic in order to get the timing better.
You can see that the scene that the characters in is better proportioned to him. This is because we decided to construct the scene that the character would be interacting with. This helped greatly with animating the poses as instead of having to 'guess' where hands would be to open something or feet would be placed to climb an object we could instead position them on the props. This also helped as we could manipulate the objects for the animation too, such as have the character grab the window and the window open while he pulls it.