1/2 Today, Blue Sky Studios is closing. When the announcements was made 2 months ago, I couldn’t believe it. I have experienced a wave of emotions, but today I feel an even bigger loss because it is really happening.
Here's a reference comparison for this shot from
#KFP4
. Ping & Li were such fun characters to animate. Fun fact: The bunny wasn't originally in this shot. I came up with the idea with the awesome
@lirontopazart
. No muppets were harmed in the making of this shot...
Just watched our final crew virtual screening of Nimona. What a beautiful film made by the most beautiful & talented people. It’s so sad that we won’t be able to finish this amazing, powerful film. 1/2
#animation
@Gingerhazing
#savenimona
#film
As an extremely passionate animator who loves what I do everyday, it is with a heavy heart that I have to announce I have been laid off from Dreamworks & will be available for work. I appreciate any job opportunities or leads. Thanks for your support.
#KungFuPanda4
is coming out Friday! Here is a reference comparison I did for this marketing piece that's been online. I've been beatboxing since I was a kid, & recently started learning drums, so once I saw this, I knew I had to animate it!
#reference
#animation
#beatbox
#drums
I LOVE the
#Trolls
world & characters. When I saw the choreography for this, I HAD to work on it. I was such a big N’SYNC & Boyz II Men fan growing up. This was a dream come true to work on. Thanks to
@bawhabmw
@DaneStogner
for trusting me with these. I did theshots :14 to :21
To celebrate Trolls3 on VOD today, here's a reference comparison I did for some of my shots. Fun ones to do- costumes & all! Thanks to my sup Brooke and HOCA
@bawhabmw
for trusting me with these. The movie is still in theaters! Go check it out!
#Trolls
#animation
@DW_Animators
Here's another reference comparison from the marketing for Hot Ones. Supervised by the great John Hill. Fun Fact: I used actual spicy chicken wings with Habanero sauce that really did burn my eyes when wiping them.
#Dreamworks
#HotOnes
#PussinBoots
#animation
#reference
Excited 4 everyone to see this! This was the last thing I worked on
@blueskystudios
before Disney shut us down. You're in for a treat. So many talented artists put their heart & soul into these. You know who you are. Blue Sky 4ever!
#animation
#scrat
#cg
#iceage
#scrattales
Scrat Tales is out on Disney+ today!This was a labor of love continued to be worked on after
@blueskystudios
was announced to close. I had the pleasure of working on the 1st episode, 1st shot of Scrat & a few others which I’ll post soon. Happy we were properly credited. Enjoy!
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the team at
@Dreamworks
today! Thankful for this opportunity and looking forward to working with all the amazing talented people that have made such memorable films!
#newjob
#animation
#cg
#animator
Head of Character Animation at DreamWorks Carlos F. Puertolas has demonstrated several character animation tests produced during the pre-production of Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
See more:
#animation
#3danimation
#characteranimation
#dreamworks
Nimona’s always been a spunky little story that just wouldn’t stop. She’s a fighter…but she’s also got some really awesome people fighting for her. I am excited out of my mind to announce that THE NIMONA MOVIE IS ALIVE…coming at you in 2023 from Annapurna and Netflix 🤘
Universal has officially confirmed the release date for the DreamWorks film The Wild Robot. The film will be released on September 20th, 2024. Knowing Chris Sanders is directing it and how promising the premise sounds, this is one of my most anticipated animated films of 2024.
Here are my shots from the first episode of ‘Scrat Tales’ called ‘Nut About You’. It was an honor to animate the first shot of Scrat and bring him back into the world. I had such a fun time on this short!
#animation
#BlueSkyStudios
#scrat
Now that
#KFP4
is on digital, here are some of the shots I animated for the film. It was such a great project to work on! Thanks to the entire
@DW_Animators
team and big shout out to Sean Sexton, Laurent Caneiro, and Thomas Grummt for their guidance and support.
Trolls: Band Together, is out today!!! My 2nd film
@Dreamworks
and a super fun one too! I love this world and these characters. Such a great team to work with. All of the
@DW_Animators
rocked it. Hope you enjoy it!
#Trolls
#animation
#animator
2/2 Thank you to everyone
@blueskystudios
for your passion on bringing this story to life. I will miss you all so much and hope to work with you all again very soon.
#animation
#nimona
Hi
#JewishArtists
. I’m Justin, a feature film animator of Ashkenazi descent. Here are some films I’ve worked on! Let’s celebrate
#jewishheritagemonth
and recognize other Jewish artists !
A week after Kung Fu Panda is
#1
at the box office and the stunning trailer for The Wild Robot is released to much fanfare (11M views), I’m hearing of mass layoffs at DreamWorks.
Sending love to those affected. If you see someone looking for work, amplify them.
🎶 It’s all we ever wanted, all we ever needed 🎶 Watch the new trailer for
#TrollsBandTogether
featuring “Better Place” from *NSYNC 🤩
❤️ to receive updates about the film until it hits theaters on November 17.
A letter from Blue Sky Co-Founder, Chris Wedge.
With the news of Blue Sky’s closing, we send 34-years worth of gratitude and appreciation to our friends and fans throughout the world. 💙
Phil Lord and Chris Miller recall being once told that "if we played our cards right, we would one day 'graduate to live-action' and another exec saying a "certain animated movie we made was so enjoyable that it reminded them of ‘a real movie.’”
We are pleased announce that Chris Sanders has returned to DreamWorks Animation and is set to write and direct "The Wild Robot," based on the New York Times bestseller by Peter Brown. Jeff Hermann will produce.
Finished working at Illumination this past week on Despicable Me 4. Worked with a great, talented group of people on a fun film! I’ll be moving on to a new adventure starting Monday. I’ll have more info to share then 🙂
Here’s a little sneak peak to the opening of our new film at Dreamworks, Trolls: Band Together. I even got a chunk of shots in there where Gristle wakes up from his bachelor party ☺️ The
@DW_Animators
rocked this film!
Even though as head of character animation I didn't get to animate much, I got the opportunity to work on those fight shots , trying to live up to the amazing storyboards of Anthony Holden
@nthonyholden
!
Lighting and FX made those shine so much !
Thank you so much everyone for your overwhelming support!! We were able to get some media coverage today! CNN at 4:30 PM, and ABC-7 NY at 11 PM.
#SAVEARNOLDWEG
and hopefully, creating change for the thousands suffering with
#COVID19
#CORONAVIRUS
PLEASE SHARE!
Just backed my friend and former Dreamworks co-worker,
@Jeremy_Schaef
's Kickstarter for The Box Assassin 📦 Indie Animated Series. Such a great guy and talent! Check it out and help him fund this awesome project!
THANK YOU SO MUCH
@TheAcademy
for this incredible nomination!! To celebrate this story of acceptance and seeing those who feel othered means the world!
@Gingerhazing
Thank YOU Noelle for your amazing story. I feel so honored and privileged that I was able to animate on Nimona. It was going to be amazing! You truly are a visionary and I look forward to seeing what you come up with on the future. Thank you for the gift of Nimona.
Here’s the 2nd trailer to DM4 which I animated on at Illumination over 2 years ago. Such a fun project! I even have a couple of Silas shots in the trailer!
Dr. Arnold Weg is recovering from coronavirus. His son says thousands of frontline workers like Dr. Weg have fallen ill “and if we don’t maintain these proper social distancing measures, these heroes... won’t be around to help us in our times of need.”
So happy to see this out in the wild!
Fun Fact: I was animating a chunk of this sequence when it was in production
@blueskystudios
before it got shut down. Thank goodness
@dneg
took the reins and made this movie come into the world. You are all in for a treat!
The reason I'm not scared (yet) of the Sora vids as an animator is that animation is an iterative process, especially when working for a client
Here's a bunch of notes to improve one of the anims, which a human could address, but AI would just start over
What client wants that?
‘PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH’ has went back up to
#2
at the domestic box office with $11.5M this weekend.
Read our interview with director Joel Crawford:
It’s been a heartbreaking few days at DW…
I know these artist will land on their feet because they’re just that good. And not only are they talented, they’re also amazing people.
Please do keep an eye out for their work and give it a share if you don’t mind 🙏