Woah, awesum.

 

Yeaaah [/thread]

 

Very cool!  

About gave me a heart attack though when I cranked it to hear Shawn's boss and the others (much closer to the mic) continue with questions. WOW! that was loud!  

 

Listening to it now, these guys are really entertaining.

 

is that sarah from sarah and no name? if so what happened to no name?

 

Shawns a really cool guy met him a few times while I was studying with animationmentor.com (he took me for a tour of ILM). Extremely talented, and genuine bloke. Great to hear him talking about his career and ROTF.

 

Cool! Good find, Seth.

 

Cool stuff  

 

Awesome!

 

Good podcast, enjoyable.

 

What did the podcast say about Michael Bay almost making ILM animators cry?

 

Bay has a very distinct eye on what he wants to see, and he'll make no distinction between junior animators and the guys that have been there for years, and will pull no punches. I heard stories from the first film along the lines of "make it not look like a piece of crap", and if you think of this as your first shot on the film, you've planned your shot, worked on your blocking (basic animation), and your looking at it thinking "yeah, this looks really good, Im ready to show this to Bay to get the concept OK'd" and you get a comment like that its gonna knock you. Its part of the industry though, you NEED to be able to take the crits, its the way you produce better work, and as Shawn says in the interview, your there to put THE DIRECTORS vision on screen. The shot in question in the first film is one of my favourites, the animator took the crit, went away, reanimated it, and knocked it out of the park.

 

As much as it is too bad that some director would act like a douche, in the end harsh critism might be just what you need. Maybe you'll get so angry and be like "I'll show that bastard!" that you go back and create the best work you'v ever done, just to prove the guy wrong.

Or you could go sit in a corner and cry.

Working in the business is hard, because sometimes (read: alot) you will have to create something for somebody that is obviously the wrong choice, but hey, he's the one pulling the strings, and you get payed to work for him!

That's the point where you will have to decide if that's what you want to be part of, or maybe go do something for yourself.

 

Transcript for those of us that can't be assed to listen?

 

This please

 

You're asking for somebody to go listen to the podcast and write down what is said for you, instead of listening to it?....hmm...