One of the perks of working from home is you get to know your kids a lot better. While working the other morning, my daughter and I had a long discussion about saving up money, and ways that kids can earn money. She told me that I forget what it's like being a kid and how hard it is to earn money. Then she asked for a loan to get a mermaid tail and she'd pay me back when she got the cash. I told her I only loan out money for education and real estate. Then I offered to train her to scan my sketchbooks and paid her to do mine. Took her an hour, but she earned $7.
Style vs Technology in Feature Animation
Just wanted to note that Sleeping Beauty was released 21 years after Snow White was released.
Sleeping Beauty, 1959
Snow White, 1938
Sleeping Beauty, 1959
Snow White, 1938
The same amount of time had passed in between Toy Story and Finding Dory:
Finding Dory, 2016
Toy Story, 1995
Finding Dory, 2016
Toy Story, 1995
I’m guessing in the first 20 years of Disney animated films the artists were more concerned with advancing style than they were technology. Once they figured out the techniques of 2D animation, style and artistry became the focus.
In the first 20+ years of CG animation the focus has been technology over artistry. “Look how realistic we can make: plastic/wood, grass, fur, water, lighting, different water, wet fur, clothing, wet clothing, explosions, humans...”
In the last 5 years pretty much every CG technological mountain has been conquered. Right? When the artists no longer have limits to what they can create in CG, they can completely focus on style. Spiderverse is the perfect example:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
I think Spiderverse was just scratching the surface of what CG artists can do stylistically and it makes me really excited for the future of CG animation.
-Jake
I Took Over RhinoShield's Instagram Account
Part of the partnership I have with them is to sell some cases with my art on them included me promoting the collaboration online a bunch of different ways. One of the ideas we had was for me to take over their Instagram account and do a story on there.
For the story I did a look at my studio, the books I've made over the years, and a quick drawing demo. They've left it up and you can still watch it here:
My RhinoShield Instagram Story
And here's the drawing I made for them:
-Jake