The Junior Compositor

(c) Lucas Martell 2009

A quick plug this week for a great blog and seemingly Herculean effort by Lucas Martell and cohorts for the making of their short, Pigeon Impossible. You can check out the main website here and the blog here. I highly recommend reading through the blog and downloading the video podcasts (vidcasts?)


While Lucas and the team have been working in Autodesk XSI (though Softimage XSI at the time) the vidcasts are “3D application agnostic”. Actually that’s one of the reasons I am recommending you go check it out as Lucas focuses more on the *process* and the *concepts* and how they can help your production rather than “if you hit this button, X will happen”.

The thing is, creating a 6 minute long animation is a lot of work. Creating a 6 minute animation that looks professional quality is a totally different kettle of fish. Learn from Lucas’s mistakes (and of course hints from this very site) and you will hopefully be able to avoid many pitfalls and time-sinks which will let you keep your focus on your production rather than problems.

Tags: Ramblings

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