Aug 4
2009

Lasseter Gets Back to Basics


posted by Aaron

John Lasseter, the Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and director of animation masterworks like Toy Story and Toy Story 2, recently answered questions posed to him on Facebook and Twitter. The question answered below was “what advice do you have for an aspiring animation student?” Lasseter asks that we don’t forget to study the basics (drawing, design, animation fundamentals, film grammar, story, etc…):

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One Response to “Lasseter Gets Back to Basics”

  1. 1 InkAndPixelClub Says on August 4th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    While this doesn’t seem like an earthshattering revelation to me, I think it’s still something important for young animators to hear. The more computers get involved in the process, the more you have people thinking “I can just do whatever and the computer will make it look good.”

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