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[Space-_-Bender]

This is the first time I've seen a company explain to its audience about material settings.

[ash]

wow they put in so much work only for people to watch it for about 2 hours, criticise it then forget all about it. All those people who worked so hard don't even get their name out... and yet they still want to create more and more, I've always loved animation, learning about, trying my best to improve my art work but I must say, all these people are just so amazing, I hope they've realised what an inspiration they are and how amazing their work is, whole world's are created because of them!

[paramedicman]

An animation talking to animators, talking about animating...
LOVE IT.


This is good content for anyone wanting to get into the process of film making :-)

[SyVanG]

this video is perfect to explain to people what we artists do!

[kylepembroke]

This is actually a really creative way to explain the pipeline and somewhat educate people, compliments to the screenwriters for such a creative idea

[mikieliza]

I've heard so many people say stuff like "CG Animation killed 2D animation because it's cheaper to make" or "It's just computer generated so it's not as artistic as hand-drawn animation". Absolutely not true! The animators spend so much time to make sure that every frame looks beautiful and amazing, and it's one several-year giant group project to do it. There is no "Animate Button", and "computer generated" doesn't mean there's any less work. Every frame is designed, controlled, inspected, touched up, and scrutinized (and it's not an exaggeration-- literally every single frame is looked at closely. Those "everything wrong with ____" videos really annoy me because of that lol)

How to Train Your Dragon took 165 million to make, Tangled took 260 million.... it takes a lot of time and labor to make these fantastic films. 2D Animation is of course also beautiful, but I don't believe CG is any less artistic than those beautiful classics. We've reached a time when CG film is just as versatile and flexible as 2D with the help of creative, problem-solving minds (i.e. The Peanuts Movie, Zootopia, Paperman, etc.)

Those are my 2 cents. Oh, also they didn't include rendering for some reason, rendering is the final step in which the computer has to calculate the light reflections and refractions in every frame so it doesn't look wireframe/grayscale/flat colored like it does in the software. Each frame can take anywhere from several hours to days to render, which is a lot considering each 1 second of screentime has at least 24 frames in it. For Pixar to render Monsters University, it took them over 100 million CPU hours. Most studios buy a large collection of computers, or a "render farm", to make the process go much faster.

[Idk]

I know this has been done a million times but I need one for myself to look at

1. Story
2. Art
3.Modeling
4.Rigging
5.Surfaces
6.Rough layout
7. Final layout
8.Animation
9.Crowds
10.Character FX
11.FX
12.Matte painting
13. Lighting
14. Image finaling
15.Sound design

Custom
(Foley Rendering Ect.)

P.S don't forget the voicing

[WhatElsW]

🐧
1:30 Story
2:38 Editorial
4:00 Art
4:42 Modeling
5:35 Rigging
6:23 Surfacing
7:12 Rough Layout
7:42 Final Layout
8:34 Animation
9:35 Crowds
10:28 Character FX
11:04 FX
12:15 Matte Painting
12:58 Lighting
13:39 Image Finaling
13:51 Sound Design
🤯🙌

[a_bear]

I'm thankful I have eyes and I can see

[VirtualSuperSoldier]

Wow, those clean up guys didn't get much love (13:38).

[Ha]

I don't care what anyone says. This is in my opinion the best behind the scenes tutorial of all time.

[jkrwhy]

I'm so happy this was created. This really increases my insight of what steps and people it takes to create a CG animated film. Thank you DreamWorks!

[iBgamin]

Such a great way to introduce kids to what goes into a movie! I'm showing my kids tomorrow!

[jewelsdiamond]

Dreamworks really is amazing l love them

[juanorihuela]

It's there a simple word to define all this work... Magic!

[MichaelRauwerdink]

they forgot one of the biggest and most time consuming things: rendering!

[pierreducos]

I just have to say - I'm so glad that Dreamworks made this - EVEN if just for the few who would need it. (And of course, for the ones who would find joy in gawking at it :)

[serraxer]

Thank you Dreamworks, so much hard work putted in one movie.

[AchHadda]

i'm looking at what is waiting for me in the future xD

[minjison]

This is amaaaazing!!! Never have I EVER seen a company explain its work pipeline in such an entertaining way LOVED IT❤