For Spark CG Society, I asked ILM’s Rob Bredow about the opening speeder chase in Solo.
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‘We’re making a movie about emojis’ – so how do you animate those things?
One of the appeals of being an animator must be new character challenges – finding the right movement, finding the personality, finding the ‘voice’, even when the characters appear to be quite simple. That challenge was awaiting Sony Pictures Imageworks for The Emoji Movie, and I talked to anim supe Sacha Kapijimpanga for Spark CG Society about finding a solution.
Plane crazy
Imageworks took on the visual effects for the final third act in Spider-Man: Homecoming, from the factory battle, to the plane fight and the beach confrontation. Here’s a look at how they did it, at Spark CG Society.
Nitrogen: the studio behind Sausage Party
Spark CG Society asked me to interview Nitrogen Studios, the team behind the animation in Sausage Party. Here’s the result, and I have to say, SP is one of the funniest films this year.
