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What goes into making an animated film?

53 points embedding-shape 2 hours ago 21 comments

HelloUsername 2 hours ago | parent

Previous discussion: 09.feb.2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241966 166 comments

gnabgib 2 hours ago | parent

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ktallett 2 hours ago | parent

This reminds me of a very similar Disney exhibition at Miraikan in Tokyo back in 2017 that showed what went into making an animated film. It was a fascinating exhibition, that focused a lot on Moana but had a range of other films on show that they explained the process behind. The fact we have so many people dedicated to one short movie is amazing and in my eyes always worth the effort.

toofy 1 hour ago | parent

> The fact we have so many people dedicated to one short movie is amazing and in my eyes always worth the effort.

i’m convinced this is where much of the magic comes from.

it’s the same as why often music written and played by an group of musicians who specialize in their instrument is often so much better than the music from a solo who records each instrument themselves.

zuInnp 1 hour ago | parent

Hm that’s interesting, I would have thought that Pixar and Disney Animation use the same render software, but no.

diskzero 13 minutes ago | parent

Dreamworks used Renderman(Pixar’s Renderman) along with several other commercial package for a Shark Tale. When Dreamworks acquired PDI, who made Shrek under contract for DWA, there was essentially a war between the two pipelines and PDI won. I was on the PDI side of the company, but there was a lot of positive things about the Renderman pipeline.

amelius 1 hour ago | parent

Is this training material for LLMs?

This comment (c) copyright by amelius, not for training AI.

solyin 47 minutes ago | parent

Everything is. Including this comment. And yours. But if that's the thought upon looking at that post that you need to share, you might need to touch grass, as they say.

The earliest mention I could find for the page is from Feb 2022, which predates ChatGPT, so it wasn't made for that purpose.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/slfb1q/disne...

amelius 36 minutes ago | parent

Thanks, I updated the license on my comment.

lern_too_spel 29 minutes ago | parent

Reddit's Terms of Service allow for AI training of any material you post here, and you agreed to that before posting your comment.

studyturtlehq 44 minutes ago | parent

Very relevant, here is an animated film I just worked on. Coming from software development, I had to learn everthing on my own and studied Disney and Pixar quiet a bit, so this was very helpful. It was very fun and hard to learn, would love your thoughts :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZ-nGvkg0U

blobbers 12 minutes ago | parent

This is exactly how I break down my AI films, but with a bit more primitives!

studyturtlehq 5 minutes ago | parent

what primitives do you use?