Month: November 2022

Looking further into The Line Animation, I really appricate how clean their style is and the level of detail they can get into their work while still producing smooth and expressive work.

Looking into one particualr artist Bishoy Gendi and specifically his clean-up work. Bishoy is one of animators at The Line Animation, and was lead animtor for their advert “Dear Alice”

I managed to get and interview with Bishoy and he kindly agreed to take an hour out of his dat and answer a few questions for me.

What is the main Job for a 2D Animation Supervisor?
You are incharge of animation quality, briefing people, giving notes, and draw overs. You also decide who gets what scenes and have a close working relationship with Production and the Directors.

How long Does it take you to get used tyo woeking in different art styles? Do you have to do any studies?
I never do any studies, most jobs finish in a week and the next job is the next day so I don’t have time. Studies are a good idea when you are a junior in the industrey, you have to be prepared to do the leg work make every job count, put more in than you need to, thats how you get remebered.

What are your favourite projects to work on?
My favourite type of animations to do are “Secuga” these are basically the money shots, they take alot of time but they look the most impressive. I also enjoy doing any Acting, making the characters come to life in little details.

What are your least favourite kind of projects?
Disorganised projects. Sometimes when teams are so big like cratoon network its easy to become disorginsed make mistakes in relaying messages.
I also hate figuring out taxes

What do you look for in collaberators?
It really depends on the project. Drawing skilss are the number one skill I look up, also that you animate well. We ahve moved to working with people all over the world now and most work is fropm home there is very little studio work.

What would you have wanted to know when you were a student?
I wish I had known how to animate on computer programes, when I was learning it was all paper animation so jumping to Flash/CC Animate was very difficult.

How long do projects usually take?
It depends on the project and they type of project. Films can take anywhere from a year to 4-8 months
Shorts can take 1 week to 6 weeks.

Any advice for me specifically?
Sharpen your drawing skills, do as much as possible and work hard, all the extra hours will pay off!

The Line recently has been been posting process breakdowns showing their animation production line from start to finish.
Their Process follows this Line
1. Rough
2. Tie Down
3. Clean and Colour
4. Shadow
5. Boom!
Obviusly this is streamlined and simplified for the ease of social media and it missed out key stages such as. Character design, storyboard, and layout. But its a helpful insight into how much work goes into even such a simple scene.

Hayley Wong

Recent obsession of mine is the new Disney show Owl House I have been keeping up to date with each episode as it has been released.
I’m so impressed with the fluid 2D animation in this, character designs and the plot.
I decided to look further into some of the talent behind the work starting with the story boards.

Some of the favourite work I have seen comes from Hayley Wong. She manages to capture Drama and movement so easily in her work. This scene in particular from the Episode “Hallow Mind” show cases really good knowledge of fabric physics and follow through. The work is so clean and thought through, the key animators and inbetween artists and left with very little room for error.

Another part of her work that impresses me so much is the emotion and the expressions. The character designs themselves have so much individuality to them and yet are so simple but even then getting these character to express such real sadness is impressive. I feel actually connected to scene and this episode in particular is a roller coaster of emotions and plot points.