A lot of the workflow issues will resolve themselves with time and experience. The more you animate, and the more you learn to work with different rigs and software, the more productive you will naturally become. As far as actively working on increasing your productivity goes, it’s very helpful to talk to other animators about [...]

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There are a lot of things that separate a good animator and a bad animator. I will skip the obvious things like talent, speed, good mechanics, fundamentals, etc. There are a lot of animators out there that have all of those qualities. I know for me, two things that inspire me are an animator’s attention [...]

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I think this will be a little disappointing, but I don’t have a favorite animated movie. There are some films that made a big impression on me and probably made me begin to love animation, but it’s not just one film – it’s many. For instance, short films made a huge impression on me. Not [...]

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In traditional hand-drawn animation, the "clean-up" phase (usually done by someone called a clean-up artist), is when the rough keys, breakdowns, and in-betweens are "cleaned up" into nice, smooth solid lines and forms. In a sense, the clean-up artist is tracing the animator’s often rough drawings, but it’s more than just tracing. Even if you’ve [...]

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I spend a lot of time watching people. It’s free and relatively safe if you’re good at it. Once, I was sitting on a bus trying to read a book. Directly in front of me sat a couple who couldn’t keep their lips off each other. I was getting a little annoyed when my eyes [...]

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My interview with ILM was a bit strange because I wasn’t actually there to do it in person. I was in Tennessee at the time, which is a bit far from San Francisco. So, they decided to have a phone interview with me. The interview started with everyone introducing themselves to me, at which point [...]

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