State of the Animation Industry

I am back from Comic Con and back on the Internet. I will be posting a lot of cool stuff in the next few days but I am going to start with the important stuff first.

Here is a section from my Comic Con State of the Animation Industry panel. The question in play is what filmmakers, animated or non animated, should an animation student study. The clip starts with Tom Sito just finishing his answer about how Akira Kurosawa studied the films of John Ford. I add Hitchcock to the mix and Lennie Graves and then Ryan Ball talk about the importance of Hitchcock to any students of filmmaking.




Lennie`s answer gets into the 3 elements of scene layout and gets way into the neglected element, light and shadow. This is the reason I chose to post this clip first. Let us let the man speak, he has some important things to say.

The Neglected Scene Layout Element