Thought of the day
Posted by Administrator | Filed under General
Saw this over at Seward Street, sums things up nicely I think.
“From The Illusion of Life:
“[The animator] must understand [the scene] and feel it; it must be his own, regardless of where the ideas come from. It is this personal thinking of the animator that makes the scene good, not the reliance on others to tell him what to do.”
It seems like sometimes there can be way too many opinions on how a scene should be done – so much so, that we as animators feel like we have lost “ownership” over our scene. We’re no longer animating the scene the way we want, but rather the way someone else wants us to. It is impossible to invest any emotion into something that is no longer ours.
And it is our scene. We’re the artist. The animator. The one entrusted to bring life to an imaginary character.
An animator must be given rights to a scene if it is to be successful. Without our personal investment in a scene, it lies dead and flat on the screen like so much roadkill.”
