Animation Gospel According to Gilland

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Joe Gilland on the Animation Renaissance
I got to know Joe on my first animation job; he was a refugee from the collapse of Disney where he'd supervised effects on Lilo & Stitch. He's an amazingly talented guy,* he's really been there and seen everything, and he was a source of great encouragement for me. It's odd to think I probably know the young people he's talking about in his article, and I wonder how much of his tone has been coloured by where he's been working these last few years. Preach it, Joe! Hallelujah!


*And prolific: he almost single-handedly did all the effects on Chaotic, which together with BG painting practically saved the show, artistically, though there was no saving the scripts or concept and no one watched it anyway.

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Great link! Thanks for posting this!

The career possibilities for classical animators vanished almost overnight, and a lot of young artists feel like they missed the boat, and not all of them are too pleased with spending 12 hours a day chained to a computer monitor. Sounds like some people I know too....