John Lasseter/Charlie Rose Interview

[Rodney]

Joe Dorsey, an aspiring traditional animator, posted a link to a recent interview with John Lasseter in another forum.

In addition to many movie clicks and personal insights into John Lasseter there are also interesting facts about George Lucas and Steve Jobs.

 

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12024 (53 minute interview)

 

Joe had this to say in his post about the interview:

It shows some real passion from John about his love for animation. What really got me going was hearing how Pixar works and reworks their story all along the way before committing to production. Here's kind of an outline from what I heard.

 

The overall goals:

Tell a compelling story

Create memorable and appealing characters

Place them in a believable world

 

General Production breakdown

 

1. Story idea

- Important questions: Where is the emotion going to be? What is the setting?

2. Outline

3. Treatment (work and rework)

4. Script (work and rework)

5. Storyboarding

6. Story Reels (revise 4-6 times before going to production)

7. Staging with camera work

8. Record dialog

9. Modeling

10. Animation

11. Surfacing

12. Lighting

13. Rendering

13. Sound work

 

Andrew Stanton's comment on writing and re-writing...

 

"Be wrong as fast as you can."

 

Thanks Joe!