Animbreak Facebook Live video interviews - Animator breaking in stories

jasonshum

Starting a thread here so I can continue to add on to it with future episodes and get ideas for questions/feedback!

This is a video interview series where I talk to animators in the games industry about how they got their foot in the door for their first job in this creative field. The goal is to give more insight to students that their are many paths to get there and hear from professional about their journey, hurdles they overcame, and wake up calls along the way.

These talks are streamed on Facebook Live so you can ask viewer questions in real time. If you'd like to join the conversation for the next one, follow my facebook page to get updated!

https://www.facebook.com/shumface

Our first guest - Meet Warren Goff @WarrenG,  Senior Animator at Riot Games as he talks about how he broke into the games industry! He also gives some animtips, talks about motion blur trails, and we take viewer questions.

05:25 - Warren's introduction and breaking in story
https://www.facebook.com/shumface/videos/1417890778234727

- Jason
jasonshum.com

LiamReynolds

Thanks for doing this Jason! I caught this live after work. It was very informative.

I look forward to your next one.

_adamturnbull

Great stuff Jason! I loved the first one, looking forward to the rest.

slipsius

Excellent! Also nice to see more interviews with animators! Thanks for doing these. 

Fabulous_Fab

Really interesting interview! Thanks for sharing.

AnthonyAnimation

I loved this one and can't wait for more!

Some extra show notes would be cool to include in the video description, although I know it can be time consuming. The time stamp and link to the reel are great. Maybe you want to keep it more focused on the animator, which is totally understandable, but I remember you guys talking about framing through Youtube vids and link to Rowvid (or whatever you use) could be helpful. 

Green_Cheek_Conure

Wareen's story really hit close to home. Please keep these things up Jason they really help the animation community and upcoming animators more then you ever could imagine!

Thank you so much!

Rmunday

An excellent video, thanks for sharing! Warrens story is almost the exact same as mine, same City and everything. Only difference is I work part time while trying to make my new reel! Inspirational stuff.

jasonshum

Episode 2, we're going live tomorrow 04/13 at 11am PST! I'll be chatting with Rory Alderton about his breaking in story and he'll be going over a new animation process video and taking questions. Check out his previous one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnKUI7sRaPE

LiamReynolds

ooo!! im looking forward to this. Really want to ask Rory about the use of stretch/smear

Thanks Jason!

jasonshum

The direct link for Episode 2 is here - https://www.facebook.com/shumface/videos/1449241931766278/
Thanks Rory for your time and here's a link to his latest deepdive video we were looking at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCvdHDjZT7I

Arturow

So cool! It's so awesome that we can watch the animations with this perspective and be able to go frame by frame, crazy S&S.  In the future can we have a problem that the animation team had with the design of the champion/rigging/etc and had to go back to fix them or find another way ( if there is a case) ? How easy or complicated it is in a big company like Riot?

Thanks for another great episode

jasonshum

@Arturow That's a good question, I'll have to remember that one for the next one!

jasonshum

Join us for Animbreak Episode #03 on FB Live tomorrow (18th) at 12pm PST with Riot animator Joe Han! https://www.facebook.com/shumface

We'll be taking viewer questions live as always and feel free to leave your questions in this thread (https://www.facebook.com/shumface/videos/1486941941329610) as well!

Check out Joe's animation reel here - 

_adamturnbull

Awesome, I should be able to make this one!

tiagosol

amazing info on the last podcast Jason! thanks a lot for sharing!

jasonshum

@tiagosol thank you, appreciate it!