Dan Sarto, Byron Howard, Simone Giampaulo and Conrad Vernon |
VIEW takes place every year in the beautiful Italian town of Torino (Turin), and yesterday I was there running a one-day workshop in Maya, demonstrating some cool creature animation techniques.
Meanwhile, plenty of big hitters in the animation and VFX industries were giving talks and sitting on panels, including my old DreamWorks colleague Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party) and Byron Howard (Zootopia).
Torino |
One of the most useful contributions was made by Simone Giampaolo, a directing animator at London's Blue Zoo. Blue Zoo do great work on TV series - an industry which has notoriously tough deadlines.
So, how do Blue Zoo animators manage to turn out up to to 10 seconds of animation a day, much less than feature film quotas, and still maintain quality? The secret, said Simone, was to "milk the pose" for all it's worth, In other words, skilled animators can get their characters into a pose and, rather than changing into another one (as a feature film animator might do), they stay in the pose for as long as they possibly can. If the pose is a good one, then the audience won't mind, and the animator gets to meet his or her quota.
Good advice for any animator.
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