Comments on: Show 024 - James Baxter, Part Two

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:10:26 +0000

Another fantastic podcast… and with James Baxter no less! Once again thank you for putting this together Clay.

It’s always strangely inspiring to hear the difficulties even the best animators go through in the beginning.

By: marcos

marcos — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:51:32 +0000

Animators talking about animation!
Thanks for giving these amazing artists a voice!

By: Benjamin De Schrijver

Benjamin De Schrijver — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:12:00 +0000

Wow! These Baxter ones are incredible. They both have already been a huge help. What was most interesting to me is how he seems to approach the rough animation more as some sort of planning stage. So far I’d always approached it as really the animating part, with afterwards mainly “tracing” the rough pass. For my shortfilm now, I wanted to experiment with animating more intellectually, with more realistic drawings, and thus skipping the rough stage. It brought me in difficult situations, both with my work and with my mentor, who preferred me to work rough first. But the way James explains it here makes the rough fase more like a tool of the animation process, rather than almost being the whole animation process itself (with another mainly drawing pass coming after). And it opens my eyes to ways I could use that rough pass even for this particular project.

Can’t wait for part 3!

Oh, and I say no to a vid-cast. Maybe once in a while one would be okay, but not everyone has a video ipod, and I prefer to listen away from the computer. And on my bike even a video ipod wouldn’t work ^^. Also, I just prefer more sound-only rather than fewer with video.

Thanks for all the effort you put in these podcasts!

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:09:58 +0000

Another cool podcast! Lots of technical talk which I’m not sure I understand. I’ve always wondered how animators work with timing a scene out and how they space the movements. Is the X sheet used for this?

I’m really interested in doing some little animation experiments, is there a software or method you’d recommend?

Thanks!

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:19:52 +0000

Cheers Clay and James,

One of the best podcasts ever - I listened to it on my way to work and was really inspired. Thank you!

By: Andy Seredy

Andy Seredy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:32:02 +0000

YAY!!!!!

By: Brian Nicolucci

Brian Nicolucci — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:25:26 +0000

Wow, this was my favorite episode yet. Huge thanks to you Clay and all your interviewee’s. Fantastic

By: remi

remi — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:07:48 +0000

you rock and so does your podcast!!

By: Bobby Pontillas

Bobby Pontillas — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:15:21 +0000

Also, These James Baxter podcasts reaaaally make me want to do some 2D animation again.

By: Bobby Pontillas

Bobby Pontillas — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:36:29 +0000

Great listen as always!
James mentioned that he doesnt do alot of drawing outside of work and I’m wondering how he could pull off animating these difficult scenes with complex human leads w/o doing alot tons of figure drawing.
Thats just crazy to me!