Glass Half BC2015 Review

Another Blender Conference 2015 video. I've been learning a lot watching some of these. They're not all targeted towards animation, but most have useful information. I really liked this one. Early key points for me were that writing a script for a short idea isn't always the best approach. It's not nearly as funny to read something that's visual, like Beorn Leonard said, "Get drawing early!"

The talk is based off of the short film Glass Half made for NPR.

It's a great film. The style is super cartoony, which I really like, and the animation matches pretty well. Again, this has a hand in animation from Hjalti Hjalmarsson. I was also interested in what Sarah Feidlaufer said about how she drew some of the storyboarding like a comic book. With different panels. The short definitely plays like a comic, I didn't notice the first time around.

Something surprising they did was render the short in real-time. That's pretty amazing. It's easy connect the dots of Pixar or Disney movies having fur breakthroughs, or water breakthroughs, or clouds. But for this small team of artists to think like that and have breakthroughs while under contract was really cool.

This is more of a post that interested me rather than being focused on animation. But I still learned about keeping things simple and drawing story ideas early on!