This video was brought to our attention and we wanted to share it with all of you. It captures the jocularity and camaraderie of production work very well.
This is a great salute to the team of TAG artists who flexed their artistic muscle to bring Tangled to the screen. We look forward to supporting their work by seeing it in the theaters and are thankful to Claudio for filming, mixing and presenting it to the world so we could share it.
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Nice job with the editing Claudio!
It looks like the camera crew didn't make it to the first floor of the animation building. I guess the lighting wasn't very good. It's a good thing nothing important happens down there.
this would be more appropriately titled : "Meet the animators behind the people behind the pixels"
It is, after all is said and done, about the people. Looks like a nice crop of 'em. Congrats!
Man, I'm getting old. Looks like a day care center, except for that old codger, Glen Keane.
Congratulations, kids. You are awesome! And yes, we old timers were just as silly several decades ago.
Now go kick butt at the box office.
This made me smile :) Good Job Animation crew!
@ Anonymous 1:49:00 PM
This was by an animator, for the animation department. No department was intentionally left out. Feel free to post the lighting department's "hat's off" video if you'd like. I'd like to see it.
But yeah, looks like median age in that crew is about 30. Looks like a fun team.
Great job, guys! And congratulations to Disney. They look genuinely happy.
"They look genuinely happy"
Must have been filmed before 70% of them got layed off then!
Floyd, I feel your pain. Still, I agree, a successful film is good for all of us.
"Meet the people behind the pixels"...
*sigh*
...well, yes, cute clip, it's all very nice, but..remember when it used to be the people behind the PENCILS? People like Frank and Ollie and Freddie and Milt? Those people are still my heroes. When I look at that incredible scene from Pinocchio, where he's dancing and singing at Stromboli's puppet theater...wow...that animation is every bit as good as anything CG, and it's far more beautiful.
I know it's a new day, but still, I gotta say: nuts to the pixel-pushers...it's still the pencil-pushers that I love best.
Nice video of the animation crew. It is also proof positive that Disney practices ageism. HA!
meh!
that animation is every bit as good as anything CG, and it's far more beautiful...nuts to the pixel-pushers...
Beauty is subjective. No need to dis anyone
beautiful video.... sad to see some of them were laid off...few of them are Dreamworks now...
good looking film. [sigh] But so FEW familiar faces from when I was there.
Sadly, most of those young faces are already gone, too.
I have to agree with the 'daycare center' comment.. The age diversity is sorely lacking-- and it's hard to imagine that this was not a conscious decision.
All other issues aside, the thing no one can dispute is that that studio is badly mismanaged.
Someone posted on Cartoon Brew the age breakdown:
12 in their 20's
23 in their 30's
17 in their 40's
1 in their 50's
May be more diverse than people suspect, seeing how the lowest percentage was 20's. 7 others in the video were additional were fix animators/apprentices and 6 others were production staff
As a point of reference, we should consider how many animators are still at Disney that were from the original CGI studio from the late nineties known as the Northside building. I was there. In this video I count 5 survivors remaining from the HUGE crew they had then. And of those 5, most of them were fresh out of school. Another interesting point is that of the 11 senior supervising animators from Disney's first foray into CGI, DINOSAUR, guess how many are still there? ZERO. All laid off.
There was a time that Disney was all about talent development and retention. Sadly, those days are past. The list of veterans they have sent away is long, but so is the list of youngsters they hired and fired for Chicken Little, Robinsons, Bolt, and now Tangled. None of the successful, major CG studios (Pixar, DreamWorks, Blue Sky) intentionally flushes so much talent after each production.
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