From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Do easy scenes first

Do easy scenes first

From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Do easy scenes first

- [Instructor] Quite a few years ago, I was working in an animation studio where some really bad advice was given and this is the advice. Do your hard scenes first. So basically, the animators will be given a bunch of scenes to do for the week and the advice was do the difficult one when you start and then leave the easy ones 'til the end. Worst advice ever. I kind of bit my tongue 'cause I was the new guy. But it really kind of upset me to hear people given this well-meaning but potentially backfiring advice. So why is this not good? Well, essentially, you are one person in a pipeline and I've drawn this diagram to show different people that might follow you in a pipeline, cleanup if you're working in a traditional studio. It could be a different person if you're working in a CGI or a puppet system but in any event, the chances that you're the last person in the pipeline, not very high. Someone's going to…

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