Animation Assistant, Lucie Julliat

At a young age, Lucie Julliat enjoyed drawing and playing percussion. She attended Emile Cohl School in Lyon, France where she made an animated film called "Percussions" about a Chef who wants to dance, but is stuck working in the kitchen.

Her big break came when she was hired as an assistant animator on "Klaus" and she has been working ever since. I sat down with Lucie to find out what an Assistant Animator does and how 2D animation production is being done now.

The Animator still creates the Key Poses and makes timing charts which the Assistant Animator or Inbetweener will complete, however on some productions, the Animation Assistant could do the in-between drawings as well as the final clean up drawings and on other productions each task would be done by more than one person.

Learn more in this interview below...

Here are some recent samples of Lucie's work including Space Jam: A New Legacy...

SJ2_LucieJulliat-AssistantAnimatorReel.mp4 from Lucie Julliat on Vimeo.

From Klaus...

Klaus-CleanUpReel-LJulliat from Lucie Julliat on Vimeo.

Its nice to know that 2D animation is still being done. 

Thanks for Watching!

The Tomm Moore interview

If you've seen "The Secret of Kells" or "Song of the Sea", then you have seen the work of Tomm Moore and his animation studio Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny, Ireland. Recently, I got an opportunity to interview Tomm and talked a lot about his new film, Wolfwalkers.

The theme of this film is "When friendship conquers fear" and is the story of a young girl living in Kilkenny in 1650. Her father is a hunter who she wants to be like. One day, she goes hunting by herself and she meets a very interesting and wild little girl who lives in the woods nearby.

When I spoke with Moore, he was in middle of finishing up the movie poster for the film. I also learned that Moore will be doing the 2d animation for Jim Capobianco's upcoming animated feature called "The Inventor"; another upcoming interview. Take a look at the interview below and learn how this film is also based on Irish history. 

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