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Justin Hall

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Justin Hall / Animator
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
It was actually between animation jobs, but I spent a while as a bike courier (that’s on a bicycle, not a motorbike!). It’s an awesome job – outdoors, keeps you fit, get to fight with buses – just not really a career.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
With only a few exceptions, all my projects have been great and well received by the final audiences. Tiny Planets (Sesame Workshops) and OOglies (BBC) were great fun to work on and were loved by the kids (and college students) that saw them. Obviously getting the Oscar nomination for The Illusionist this year was nice. But the best project I have ever been involved with Continue reading

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Joaquin Baldwin

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Sebastian’s Voodoo: 
What is your name and your current occupation? 
I’m Joaquin Baldwin, I work at the Walt Disney Animation Studios as a CG Layout Artist, I’m currently working on the film Wreck-It Ralph that should come out in November of 2012. Here’s some more info on Wreck-It Ralph:
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I cleaned a ceramics lab and worked in the admissions office at my old college (CCAD). I was also a webdesigner for about 6 years, which is not a crazy job, but sometimes you gotta make porn sites 🙂
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? 
I made 3 short films recently while finishing my studies at UCLA: Sebastian’s Voodoo, Papiroflexia and The Windmill Farmer. They were incredibly fun to make, and getting a chance at going out to film festivals all over the place with them was a unique experience all filmmakers should experience at least once.
How did you become interested in animation?
I was a computer nerd and used to experiment with computer graphics while in high-school. I liked blowing shit up (in the computer, but also in real life making explosives but that’s another story). I learned a lot of technical things this way, but not much on the artistic side. I came to the US to study art and webdesign and decided that I kind of hated it, and doing animation was more fun. It wasn’t until that point that I embraced animation as a way to Continue reading
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Leigh Rens

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Leigh Rens, I’m an animator, a mentor at animationmentor.com and a previz camera guy.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation? 
First job out of college was as a layout artist at a sticker factory, was on the print floor inhaling thinners all day, my clothes smelt so flammable that no-one would sit next me when I got home. Also worked as a grip for an industrial video company. setting up camera and lights in the most amazing places, from coal mines to furnaces and even a Twinkies factory and my last gig before getting into animation was at an art gallery, selling miro’s and picasso’s.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’ve had fun on so many but I guess my most recent ones’ …..camera and animatic blocking on “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” for PLF at fox studios, also some spots for Oakley which I produced with my own crew for the winter X-games this year and a supergraphic for 2k10 a year or so ago that covered the side of Figeroa hotel opposite the staples center in downtown LA. also my work at rhythm and hues, on the Narnia, Scooby Doo and Garfield movies.
How did you become interested in animation? 
theres three moments that stand out. remember going crazy for Tom and Jerry when I was four, kept begging my dad to rent all the 8mm prints from the local rental store, drove him crazy. also when I was a kid, there’s is a memory of hanging out on this giant flat rock with our Continue reading
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Xavier Ramonède

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Xavier Ramonède, I’m mostly a 2D animator but I’m also an illustrator and character designer.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I have made a lot of little jobs when I was a student : I worked in an hotel, then I worked in a supermaket called Monoprix where i sold fishes and sea food, bread, cheese…

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
It’s hard to tell because there can be a lot of differences between the mood on a production and the film itself. Working on The Illusionnist was very long and hard but the movie has been nominated for the Oscars and won a Cesar (the french Oscars), but my favorite movie I’ve been working on was Nocturna. It’s a very small budget feature film from Spain but it’s a very beautiful movie.

How did you become interested in animation?
First I wanted to make films like Toy Story but I absolutly didn’t know how they did it, so I was aiming for a computer school. But then Continue reading

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Eric T. Elder

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Eric T. Elder and I am an Animation and Video Game Producer in Los Angeles.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I had a couple of cool service jobs before getting into animation full time. I was the “King of Room Service” at the Hotel Atop the Bellvue one of the oldest hotels in the country and got to see some interesting celebrities Winona Ryder, Sherman Hemsley, The Edge from U2.  Then I was a singing waiter on the Spirit of Philadelphia and my solo song was “The Rainbow Connection” from the muppet movie. I also had a retail job at a Warner Brothers studio store selling prints and cells of classic Looney Tunes.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I am definitely proud to be part of the team that created King of the Hill. My favorite sequence was one of my last where I made Peggy a rapper. Also I’m really proud of the Game Wizards program I created at the Art Institute in Santa Monica where I trained many successful people to work in Video Games.

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I’m originally from Philadelphia where there were at the time just one small animation studio called the Production House. I worked on a project there which was an infomercial for baby formula. That was the first Continue reading

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A Fox Tale

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piH5_aP0fY8&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

A beautiful piece reminiscent of something DreamWorks would do. Some great action sequences, really beautiful backgrounds and environments and a truly foxy girl to boot! A definite must watch.