Animation Tips & Tricks with Animator Rick O'Connor

Watch this helpful video from the Animation Mentor April 2011 Newsletter.

Industrial Light & Magic Animator Rick O'Connor talks about the importance of keeping your ego in check as an animator. In the field, animators work to bring to life someone else's vision. Therefore, the animator's responsibility is to create what the director visualizes.

Although animators may offer helpful suggestions for shots, everyone involved in the shot will have their own ideas and opinions. Because of this, one person, the director, is in charge of making the final decision on what the shot needs to provide. Having one person in charge of the big picture allows the scene to have a clear flow from one shot to the next.

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[KakiHat]

So you have people in the room here. Does that mean you let students come in for the lectures whenever possible, or is this a special seminar?

[AnimationMentor]

@KakiHat We film lectures in different ways, and some do involve students! This lecture was for our new Animals & Creatures course and we did have students come in to learn and ask questions about the material.

[eyeofsolomon]

So true.

[Seralios]

flipping burgers.. rofl!!!