I like working on commercials once in a while. They feel like a mini movie at best, they have a definite time frame, still wanting to tell an epic story – plus there always is a quick turn around.
Lately I have not had much extra time to take on commercials. More than a year ago I did this story pitch for a Danonino commercial, which was fun to do (I dont think anything ever came out of it in the end though).
...freezing temperatures outside and everything covered in white. It must be winter.
I have been plenty busy working away and feeding my wood burning oven to keep me warm. Only recently I discovered some great interviews with some fantastic fellow story artists currently working in the USA (on the schoolism website). I have not had the time to listen to all of them, but I can highly recommend (to those of you interested in story art) these ones for now:
Alex Woo (Pixar)
Louie Del Carmen (Dreamworks)
Kris Pearn (Sony Animation)
James Robertson (Pixar)
Also I have been listening to most of the interviews on the animationguild blog.
The latest for instance with story artist/ director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Dreamworks) about Kung Fu Panda 2.
Going through my hard drive over the holidays I rediscovered two quicktimes I boarded a couple years ago. Created from a simple, few sentence outline with a 2.5 minutes cap and no dialogue (you have to provide your own sound effects while watching). There was a comfortable amount of freedom interpreting the outline while doing them, except for the fixed budget. The episodes were then finished directly by an animator in a cut out style and aired as animated segments during a kids show. Unfortunately I have never had the chance to see the aired version of these to episodes.
