Advice : Illustrator to Animator
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- Stugoo
Hi folks, Im struggling with a bit of an issue here.
I've been asked to Illustrate, for a friend for her degree film, the character concept and scenes for 2 seperate animations (now turned into 3). I would then pass these onto the animator, who would in turn animate the scenes. I thought, after being slighty confused, about how simple and straight forward this would be that it would be good to help out a friend with a few quick illustrations.
I recieved a phone call from her the other day, worrying that I would not have time to finish the illustrations. I was confused as I was sure I only had to produce 3 final works. This is now not the case, I am supposed to produce 56 individual frames for the whole piece and Im a bit taken back...
I made it clear at the start than I was no frame animator and that I was not up for animating as it would be time consuming.
What should I do? Tell her to stick it?
Was I being naive at the beggining thinking this was to be a quick job?Feedback appreciated.
- Mishga0
If your friend ask you to do the character design, well... you've done it right...
and now tell your friend to hire an Animator...;)
- Mojo0
As a teacher, I've seen a similar thing happen with one of my students who is doing a video. She asked someone else (paid them, barely) to do the grunt of the video editing work. Problem now is that she hasn't really properly storyboard'd and is leaving the poor guy to make creative decisions - each time something comes back she rips it.
Risky business. Always spec it first.
- Stugoo0
Cheers folks.
doing the correspondance now... the worst part about is that its for a friend, so its heart strings, but its not paid.
- harlequino0
Sounds like she didn't make herself clear.
Why can't the animator do this? Isn't that his bag?