I don't think I have the patience to be an animator. In this little blurb about the animation of The Very First Noel, it talks a little about the project that required 17 minutes of animation be completed in 10 weeks. Reel FX did the production with each animator creating about 8-10 seconds per week. The part I found humorous was after they realized creating new background characters was going to take up too much time, the adopted a Mr. Potato Head approach: grab body parts from other characters to quickly create a new character. The story is narrated by Andy Griffith and is available now on DVD.Animating The Very First Noel
I don't think I have the patience to be an animator. In this little blurb about the animation of The Very First Noel, it talks a little about the project that required 17 minutes of animation be completed in 10 weeks. Reel FX did the production with each animator creating about 8-10 seconds per week. The part I found humorous was after they realized creating new background characters was going to take up too much time, the adopted a Mr. Potato Head approach: grab body parts from other characters to quickly create a new character. The story is narrated by Andy Griffith and is available now on DVD.
1. When he first came up with the look he had something that was very detailed, because that was at a time when everyone thought for any animation to be successful it had to have a Pixar type look.
Posted at 3:12PM on Dec 26th 2006 by nicole