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Olivia
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What traits and attitude should an animator have?
What kinds of traits/attitudes are looked for in an animator? How do overall personality traits affect one person when they are being looked at from a business point of view?
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Kim Sobota
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Be self-directed when you are assigned a task. Have the ability to see all things as an artist does; shape, proportion, value, composition, edge, and color. Do this every day with everything you see. To remain detached from the subject, they may not like it or need it.
Have EXTREMELY thick skin! Be open to criticism, but not badgering. To have & keep a highly creative & inquisitive nature. Remain motivated.
To have the discipline to practice your art every day for at least 2-hours, when at work, even longer hours will be required, VERY long hours, that's why they have the fancy cafes and campuses on these studios that produce the volume of work necessary to create an animated feature.
Look at it logically for a second. There are 14-frames of artwork to a single second of animation. Within each frame, there may be 5 separate artforms merging together to produce the illusion of a still picture being transformed to motion.
Each one of these frames can take several hours to produce, let's say three hours to produce a frame, just for an example. In a 1-1/2-hr movie, there are 4,500-seconds and 63,000-frames, each created by a team of as many as 20 to 30 people. You will be working 10 to 12-hrs a day, 6-days a week. I would venture to say, that towards the final production, you'd be required to live at the studio to assure a professionally finished product.
The next thing, to keep in mind, is what happens to people who burn the candle at both ends? It's a proven fact that people's nerves become sensitive. A leader with an agenda to meet, whose been at it for three days straight at 16-hrs a day will do whatever it takes to finish production, there's too much at stake. That person may be difficult to work with. (Something you have to prepare yourself for, not everyone is nice that you work with. Some people are downright rude, but with a purpose, that being to finish a movie that will produce 10s of billions of dollars!
Be a good listener, God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason.
Read the book by Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers. Suggested to me by a professional artist.
Practice your art 2-hrs a day, every day, to achieve 10,000 hrs of practice. Practice the basics - Always!
Practice everything both hard as well as easy. The hard stuff will help you to grow, while the easy stuff builds confidence.
Make a good living outside art till you can put yourself in the right place at the right time, don't just survive, that sucks.
NEVER GIVE UP - EVER!!! Remember, art is there because you create it.
Have EXTREMELY thick skin! Be open to criticism, but not badgering. To have & keep a highly creative & inquisitive nature. Remain motivated.
To have the discipline to practice your art every day for at least 2-hours, when at work, even longer hours will be required, VERY long hours, that's why they have the fancy cafes and campuses on these studios that produce the volume of work necessary to create an animated feature.
Look at it logically for a second. There are 14-frames of artwork to a single second of animation. Within each frame, there may be 5 separate artforms merging together to produce the illusion of a still picture being transformed to motion.
Each one of these frames can take several hours to produce, let's say three hours to produce a frame, just for an example. In a 1-1/2-hr movie, there are 4,500-seconds and 63,000-frames, each created by a team of as many as 20 to 30 people. You will be working 10 to 12-hrs a day, 6-days a week. I would venture to say, that towards the final production, you'd be required to live at the studio to assure a professionally finished product.
The next thing, to keep in mind, is what happens to people who burn the candle at both ends? It's a proven fact that people's nerves become sensitive. A leader with an agenda to meet, whose been at it for three days straight at 16-hrs a day will do whatever it takes to finish production, there's too much at stake. That person may be difficult to work with. (Something you have to prepare yourself for, not everyone is nice that you work with. Some people are downright rude, but with a purpose, that being to finish a movie that will produce 10s of billions of dollars!
Be a good listener, God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason.
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Zachary Mann
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Some traits I would say is adaption like if you can do 3d and 2d work that great but if you can only do one or you only want to do one be the best you can at it . The best attitude to have being animator is confidence, determination, and passionate about being animator. Always take the option to learn something new and be open about critiques. I hope this help