Animation history book – “Eat, Drink, Animate” (CRC Press, 2019) – Tom Sito interview
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Tom Sito has been a film animator for decades and has worked on some of Disney’s biggest films. He teaches animation and is also a member of the Motion Picture Academy where he is also works in the short films and animation division. He’s written a cookbook that collects together various recipes from animators that Tom has known, met or simply admired.
2:02 – Tom talks about how he came about to write the animators’ recipes cookbook.
5:20 – Tom talks about how animators incorporated food in their animation.
8:19 – Tom talks about the history of computer animation.
11:30 – Tom talks about the theater experience versus seeing a movie on a small screen.
14:03 – Tom talks about what new computer animation techniques are being developed.
18:10 – Tom talks about animation cinematography.
24:37 – Tom talks about experimentation in short films.
27:13 – Tom talks about Japanese animation and other international animated films.
30:15 – Tom talks about computer animated film budgets.
46:29 – Tom talks about mixing live-action and animation. They’re referred to as hybrid films.
48:30 – Tom talks about stop-motion animation.
54:04 – Tom talks about the proliferation of short films. He also discusses how people can have success getting their short films seen for notice or awards.
1:00:10 – Tom talks about possible major changes in computer animation.
1:03:32 – Tom was a website at tomsito.com
Links of interest
https://www.crcpress.com/Eat-Drink-Animate-An-Animators-Cookbook/Sito/p/book/9780815399766
http://anim.usc.edu/faculty/tom-sito/
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