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In CGI animation, every character is basically a digital puppet. Animators control the characters using rigs. Check out the rig that allows Moana to be so expressive! Do you like CGI? What kinda animation do you want us to feature more?

PART 1: PROCESS POST! When I was assigned to animate this shot, I was super intimidated by it. It’s a full body shot with complex dancing body mechanics, plus acting and singing on top! However, with the help of some really great supervisors and co workers, I was able to avoid epic failure ha! Some things I wanted to communicate with this shot: Show the playful/close relationship between young Moana and Grandma Talas’ characters. Show that Moana can’t quite do the dance right, she must follow Tala’s graceful lead. Tala must feel old, but graceful. Once I’ve figured out the purposed of the shot, all my decisions should support that purpose. Page 2: Thumbnails! I usually write down the dialogue and do quick sketches to start to gather my ideas for the acting and posing. Thumbnails aren’t for pretty drawings! Page 3: The team brought in Polynesian dancers to demonstrate different dances. This video reference was extremely helpful! Without that research it wouldn’t have felt authentic at all. While working on this shot, I kept this post it on my monitor to remind me to push the warmth, gracefulness, and cuteness! Page 4: Aside from the Polynesian dancing videos I used for reference, I did additional reference. Our head of animation Hyrum Osmond brought in his daughter one day to help us do some video reference for young Moana. From her reference, I tried to pick out movements and timing that is specific to a girl of that age. For example, I noticed that when she ran, she ran on her tippy toes, so I incorporated that into the animation. Also some very embarrassing videos of myself! Page 5: This is my first pass that I showed directors Ron and John. I’m just blocking out my rough ideas at this stage. It does NOT look pretty! I’m just putting together rough ideas so that the directors have something to respond to. Page 6: After I’ve done a more refined blocking pass (not included here), I start to “spline” the animation. Yeah, as you can see, it’s floaty and terrible. I haven’t spent much time on the facial anim yet, I’m figuring out body mechanics. #animation #disneyanimation #disneyanimator #moana #animationprocess #cganimation #animationbreakdown

These were the first keys I ever set for Moana, 4 years ago in December of 2014. We had just finished Big Hero 6 and Frozen Fever, and the supervisors were rolling onto Moana to do the “water test” as we called it, with the intention to show it at D23 the following year (the rest of the crew started animating Zootopia). It was beautifully boarded by Chris Williams and eventually made it into the actual film, even though it started as a look test. My daughter was about the same age as Moana in this shot so I had plenty of clumsy toddler reference at my disposal. I animated the blue water rig (affectionately referred to as Gretchen, because Head of Animation @mrhyrum randomly named it that in a meeting and it stuck) to get the main beats of the performance, and then Dale Mayeda imported that geometry to create the water effects. (Finished shot followed by my first blocking pass). . . . . #moana #disneyanimator #vfx #disney #disneyobsessed #disneyaddict #disneylove #disneylife #instadisney #disneygram #disneyfan #waltdisney #waltdisneystudios #disneyart #digitalart #instaart #disneymagic #disneyig #maya #cgart #disneyworld #disneyanimation #animation #artistoninstagram #behindthescenes #d23 #houdini #process

This is a (sort of) never-seen-before Animation Performance Test with Pua and Heihei! In early versions of the film, Heihei was an aggressive and angry rooster, and we wanted to contrast his crankiness with Pua’s innocence for comedy. So I did this test to see how that dynamic could work. Heihei is decidedly more “rooster-like” in this iteration, complete with isolated head and fast, twitchy, direct movement. We played him severe and mean to sell the contrast as much as we could. We observed a lot of chicken behavior and part of me is sad none of that made it into the final film. The rest of me is happy we eventually got to make Heihei the dumbest chicken in the world.

#throwbackthursday to the very first shot I animated on #Frozen over 5 years ago. This was a fun one to warm up on (har har). We had just wrapped animation on #getahorse so I took this shot as an opportunity to put #Mickey on the shelf as an #easteregg. The BAD NEWS was, I forgot to set a key on the new position of the cheese he’s behind (you can see him in my playblast) and in the final film it’s obstructing his visibility and I didn’t catch it until it was too late . BUT since he was added to the set, eagle-eyed viewers caught him in other shots of the sequence, and it went down in history as a #hiddenmickey. You’re welcome. Enjoy my terrible video reference.

Awhile back, I posted a #goofy #hotdogdance Here’s his Hot Dog March! #animation #mickeymouseclubhouse #disney #disneyanimation #disneyanimator #disneyanimators #disneychannel #disneyjr #penciltest #2d #2danimation #2danimator #classicalanimation #drawings

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