The topic of this master thesis deals with explaining each necessary step in creating an animated movie. The word animation has its roots in the Latin word anima, which in translation means soul. This leads us to the purpose of animation as a medium, which is to give life to inanimate, static drawings or objects and enable them to move and create an illustion of movement. We’ll examine phases of production which cover the steps of preparing material for a short movie, character design, animation techniques, drawing of backgrounds, and finally editing and synchronizing. When starting any type of movie it is necessary to decide on an idea which we will expand on and adapt into a storyboard, where the shots and their cinematic elements are elaborated, such as mentioning present characters in their respective shots, the composition of the shot, camera movements, cuts, and transitions between shots. Later on the storyboard is adapted into an animatic which roughly shows us what the final movie might look like in its planned duration.