How to Become a Professional Animator and More – India Barnardo
48On this episode of Your Geek Fix we will be interviewing feature film and game animator India Barnardo about all the tips, tricks, and tools necessary to become a character animator. India is presently an animator at Sony and has a long history of animation experience. She has worked on films like the Willoughbys and Leap (Ballerina), and games like Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and Oddworld: Soulstorm. She has also completed a passion project named Cat and Moth (www.catandmoth.com) and recently presented with her international team at FMX. This educational video will cover everything from frame rate to financially surviving as an animator. If you are interested in becoming a professional animator, don’t miss this episode! #indiabarnardo #animation #yourgeekfix
►To learn more about India Barnardo, check out the links below:
★ https://vimeo.com/indipops
★ www.catandmoth.com
★ www.instagram.com/indi_pops
★ www.instagram.com/catandmoth
★ www.twitter.com/indi_pops
★ www.twitter.com/catandmoth
★ www.twitch.tv/talesfromthecranny
►Below is additional information India provided us with for online learning and networking:
★ 11 Second Club - https://www.11secondclub.com/ - a fun free competition with a community to boot!
★ Jean-Denis Haas - https://twitter.com/jeandenishaas - this guy has a ton of free resources, teaches and does free collaborative competitions too! I recommend his youtube channel.
★ iAnimate - https://ianimate.net/ - A wide range of classes, levels and instructors
★ Animation Mentor - a popular online school, mostly pixar instructors, I believe.
★ Animsquad - https://www.animsquad.com/ - Disney instructors, a little more advanced compared to ianimate.
★ Animation Flow - My friend Alex runs this smaller school. These are good to get feedback on work you have already or currently working on, he's a great guy and works at Dreamworks. https://www.animationflow.com/
★ For festivals, when covid is over, I would suggest searching for festivals in you given area, even if they are predominantly live action movies they usually have an animation category or short films.
★ Last year a lot of the bigger animation networking ones went online, and I assume at least the first half of 2021 will be the same. I'd recommend keeping an eye on Annecy Animation Festival, CTNx, Lightbox expo, SIGGRAPH, FMX, Animex, Ottawa Animation Festival and Spark Animation Festival. Some of the festivals have a discord group too, like CTNx has a year-round discord group with talks and chats. There's an organisation called Bring Your Own Animation that sometimes has online gatherings and free critique sessions too.
► Featured animation tools in order of appearance:
★ Dragonframe https://www.dragonframe.com/
★ Maya https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview?term=1-YEAR
★ Blender https://www.blender.org/
★ TvPaint https://www.tvpaint.com/
★ Toon Boom https://www.toonboom.com/
★ Wacom https://www.wacom.com/en-us
★ Gravity Sketch for Oculus https://www.gravitysketch.com/
★ Krita https://krita.org/en/
★ Ianimate https://www.ianimate.net/
★ Animgather https://www.facebook.com/groups/animgather/
★ The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams https://amzn.to/3uOhYc9
►Music from Youtube Audio Library https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/
★Clear Eyes by Silent Partner
►Additional music and stock footage by Storyblocks https://tinyurl.com/3nucbz8y
★ Animatic by Emanuele Dentoni
★ Gypsy Guitar Happy Cooking by Jeff Hanley
★ Plucky and mischievous strings for curious comical characters and cartoons by Gerardo Garcia Jr.
►Disclosures: This video is not monetized and is for educational purposes. Any video used was either with permission or under fair use, without audio and educational dialog throughout. There was no monetary gain from this video for parties involved. Clips used in order of appearance:
★Cat and Moth used with permission
★Over the Moon - SONY and Netflix
★“Time” - OTTO
★Monsters Inc - Disney and PIXAR
★The Willoughbys - SONY and Netflix
★Ballerina/Leap - SONY and Netflix
★LEAP! Select soundbite Nat Wolff - The Weinstein Company
★Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time – SONY
★Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - SONY is ais a property of SONY
★Oddworld: Soulstorm - Oddworld Inhabitants, Fat Kraken Studios, Sabotage Studios, Frima, and Just add water
★Motion capture previs for X-Men: First Class property - 20th Century Fox
★Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Walt Disney Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
★Watership Down - Rex Collings Ltd
★Song of the Sea - Backup Media
★Earwig and the Witch - Studio Ghibli NHK NEP
★Nintendo Virtual Boy Mario Tennis - Nintendo
★Lori Nix/Kathlene Gerber
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