Animation Gospel According to Gilland

[tealin]

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.

Comments

[fani.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link! It cheered me up :D

[aspectabund.livejournal.com]

"The public is hungry for it, the artists are ready to provide it"

I think it ought to be "The artists are hungry for it, the public is ready," although I suppose it works either way. ;) I love taking a look at individual animators' short films. They're so unique and expressive, and often rather experimental. As someone about to start animation at college in September, I hope that at least a couple movies or shows will be willing to take plunges like that in the future.

Also, I just noticed that you added a lilac to your icon... I'd wondered whether you'd remembered the Glorious 25th of May. :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think you're much closer to the truth of the matter there. It's hard for people in the trenches of animation to gauge the sentiment of the public at large because pretty much everyone you know and talk to is connected to the industry in some way. It was sobering to see how few reviews of Enchanted mentioned the 2D and how few people said 'Yes! Gosh! It's been so long but it's good to see it again! Why isn't there more?' outside of animation fandom. We'll just have to release P&F into the wild and see how it does.

[capnflynn.livejournal.com]

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....

[phonixa.livejournal.com]

Yay! I met him last summer in a story meeting, it was the first time i met anyone from Disney. Until you guys lol. I missed him (working) when he came to talk in class, and i heard he was sporting a mohawk.

Cool guy, and yeah, he single-handedly saved Chaotic.