An Inside Look At The Job Of An Animator – Part 1
In past workshops that I have conducted, students have asked what the job of an animator is actually like. What’s the environment like? What do you actually do, and how do you do it? The Physical...
View ArticleAn Inside Look At The Job Of An Animator – Part 2
The Job There’s so much that can be said about this so I’ll try to keep it in a nutshell and as concise as possible. Series animators are character animators. We’re responsible for all character...
View ArticleTypes Of Animation Studios
Photo courtesy of Tomasz Chrupa³a, PolandWhen I started out at my first job as an animator, I thought ‘wow, are all studios like this?’. I was working at a very big studio that had a real corporate...
View ArticleDeadlines For Animation Production
The dreaded “D” word…just the word deadline can sound really daunting if you’ve never worked with them – as in, if you don’t cross the finish line in time, your dead – or fired! Well not exactly. As a...
View ArticleThe Animation Hierarchy
Every animation production, whether it’s a TV series or feature operates in a hierarchy – a command structure developed over 70 years ago during the golden age of the animation industry, around the...
View ArticleAnimation Production Pipeline
Once a project is green lit and is slated for production, the studio which is awarded the job has to figure out how they will actually get it done. Most of this information is presented at the bidding...
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