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!

First interview of 2022

Happy New 2022 and to start the new year off right, here is a brand new interview with UK Stand Up comedian, Alasdair Beckett-King who is also into animation and visual effects. Enjoy!

I contacted Alasdair after discovering his YouTube channel and he was kind enough to talk about his short films and set me straight on who or what is Mr. Blobby.

Check out more of ABK's work on his YouTube channel... click image to learn more.

And so, You could go and Subscribe to the Animateducated channel, which would be even better.

Happy New Year Everybody!

Jim

The Tiger Rising

Our story begins in March 2020, at the very beginning of the Covid pandemic, when people started wearing face masks and hoarding mass quantities of toilet paper. I was working as a part-time driving instructor at my local AAA when I received an email asking if I would be available to do some freelance 2D animation work.

Fred Raimondi, the project's visual effects supervisor, described that he needed a scene involving a live action boy drawing a tiger on a piece of paper. Fred wanted the tiger to then come to life and interact with the boy's pencil like a playful kitten. He also described another scene he needed in which the boy is holding the tiger drawing and it comes to life again.

The story, "The Tiger Rising," is by Kate DiCamillo who wrote "Because of Winn Dixie" in 2005 and "The Tale of Despereaux" in 2008. 

I worked out a budget and figured out how I would be able to do this job and still teach animation and keep my AAA job. Then things kind of worked out when AAA closed down the driving school for a few months due to Covid and I had extra time to work on animating the tiger.

It was only later, after I finished the animation, that I found out it was for a feature film starring Queen Latifah and Dennis Quaid. I also wondered if this film would ever be shown in theaters.  

So I'm very happy to report that "The Tiger Rising" will be released on January 21, 2022. I have also received a title credit as the entire "Animation Department" on IMDB which I am quite happy with as well.

Here are the two scenes that should be somewhere in the feature film...

Please let me know what you think of the film. 

Happy New Year!