As you probably know the Blender Foundation is producing another Open Movie following the same scheme as in Orange Propject. This time it’s called Peach and again, teh quality of it is overwhelming.

So in order to reach the deadlines they have recruited external animators to work online (this is no salary and via internet).

I was blessed to join the “second unit” a dream team that includes Bassam Kurdali, Lee Salvemini, Bastian Salmela (all ex-Elephant’s Dream) and Daniel Martinez Lara (”pepeland”) one of the best animators I know. A real honour to work with these guys

How’s the work ? Simple: Sacha (director) send us “externals” a blend with the  “blocking”: first pass of animation done by them (Sacha, Nathan o William).

He give us a bunch of indications via email and we later on discuss details via IRC . On top of this blocking we do final animation adding anticipation, overshooting, overlapping, some facial and secondary animation, watching arcs etc…and when we’re done we upload the blend to internet and they download it and add it to their SVN server.

I’m really tempted to upload the latest animatics to show you all the nice renders and animations the team is producing but they’d kill me instantly if I do so before the premiere :D!.

Doing this kind of job is always a great opportunity to learn from my own mistakes as well as from others, and I must admit I have learnt a lot so far !

Regards and let’s wait for the premiere to listen to your criticism !

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