Monday, July 4, 2011

Insight into an animator's work at crunch time....

This interesting article I found in Brendan Body's blog...

It's kind of a diary with detailed notes from the animator's process behind a shot for "the legend of the guardian", from start to finish. It is packed with detailed process notes, communication with the director and even time stamps so you can see the time taken!  Very informative for a guy like me who hasn't been working in that studio pipeline environment yet...  This is a good description what the normal work week looks like, I guess.

And it is also confirming something my mentor, Kenny Roy, said the other day - the process of animation isn't straightforward, as in "going from a perfect blocking pass to a perfect blockingplus version straight on to the perfect polish".  It's a process of tweaking and making changes until it's finished...

http://brendanbody.blogspot.com/2011/06/week-in-crunch-part-1.html