On Friday I attended a talk held by Disney artist recruitment team. Within the talk I learned a lot about how animation series are created within Disney, and all the different teams that are involved within a production.
The pre-production artistic positions include:
- Executive producer
- Director
- Supervising Director
- Writer
- Story Editor
- Storyboard Artist
- Storyboard Revisionist
Production Management Positions include:
- Producer
- Associate producer
- Production manager
- Production Supervisor
- Production Coordinator
- Production Associate
- Production Department Secretary
The talk also covered how storyboards and character concept art is created for productions. This consists of numerous line sketches of a character from different angles and with different facial expression. After these line drawings have been developed, they will then be passed along to the next person on the production who will add colour to the drawings and start bringing the character to life. Below are a couple of slides from the talk in which we can see how storyboards and characters are developed for a production.
Reflection
This talk was very insightful in explaining how to create a well developed character and storyboard, which will be very useful for my project of creating character animations talking about mental health. This talk was also very helpful in providing good tips and advice on how to promote yourself as a media practitioner. The talks main objective was to talk about recruitment and so provided a lot of helpful advise on how to create a good portfolio, media CV and tips for interviews, which will all be very useful due to my degree being over in a few months.
Bibliography
Barela, S. Oxley, A. (2021) A Talk with the Artist Recruitment Team of Disney Animation Studios. [Lecture] University of Lincoln. 19 February