Sweat box

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"Sweat box" is the animation industry's equivalent to rushes, or dailies. Nowadays, when an animated scene has been approved by the animation lead, it is sent to the edit suite. The editor inserts the scene into the relevant animatic or Leica reel for viewing in context with other scenes. The director views the reel and calls for changes or approves the scenes.^[1]

As it is important for the entire crew to be up to date on changes or approvals made by the director (since significant changes may have cascading effects throughout the rest of the film or show), a sweat box session will typically be attended by producers, production staff and department supervisors. Quite often the animator responsible for a scene may be called into the meeting to take specific instructions ("notes" in industry jargon) from the director on the changes to be made.^[1]