I had been working on Planes for almost a year now as an animator. 1st thing that's a little misunderstood is that john lasseter isn't involved in the project. That's not true at all. He is actively looking over the production of this movie. He is the creative head of everything that's involved in the making.

Brian would have fun with movie if he's into planes because there are really kool flying acrobatics and stuff. The story is geared towards kids so I can't endorse that.

Teague, regarding the mouth, every possible shape that we hope to achieve is made individually by a modeller like the the dimples on the wider shapes and then the riggers attach them to blend shapes and we can dial up or down the amount of shape we need or mix match them.

Regarding the lighting and compositing workflow, Dorkman was right. The lighters achieve the final look of the frame as much as possible but then they render out every element in passes which then go to comp where tweaks are done to achieve what the director and art director wants the final image to look like.

People might not notice this but we have very strict guidelines regarding how the eye lid shapes work in the cars world. If you pay attention the lids don't work at all like human lids because it's just one line and not 2 seperate ones. The have a step shape or a notch to separate the 2. Just a boring fact

Btw a cool commentary and I agree that we miss the weekly commentaries but thanks for doing them!!

You're right Zarban.

Looks like I need to start preparing my resignation letter. Thanks guys for your thoughts. I wasn't thinking this way at first but I agree with what everyone said.

Feels freeing to finally make a choice! 

I listen to DIF while at work, animating.

This is has become a problem for me.  Because it's a habit, now. If I animate without listening to DIF it feels like I'm not having the whole experience of working properly. It's weird. I work better if I listen to DIF (or some other equally geeky podcast which are rare and few) and I'm more productive too. Haha!

Anyone else feel the same?

Hey Dean,

I just read through the script and found it very engaging and well written. Great Job!!

I would really like to see a film surrounding this sequence....!

A big thank you to Trey for the youtube link.

Just watched through all the episodes and I'm totally hooked and loving it. I don't know how I would have felt watching each episode a week apart. I felt that the amount of stuff shown in each episode is a bit on the lower side and it might be off-putting to watch so little and then wait 7 days for more.

Although I might be totally wrong because that could be the main hook for such a series.

I would love to see a full length feature for Ark.

Loved the trailer! And I'm psyched about the commentaries....
Any chance of the movie showing up in the the southern asia region?

Hey Faldor,

Thanks for the comments. I'm glad you liked it.

Hey, I just realised the colour thing. haha.

I intentionally didn't make it in colour because I'm pretty fresh to the field of colour grading. And I need a lot more experience and practice to produce content in colour.

Also, we used available light and it wasn't the best, neither constant.

Hopefully, next time we'll be able to get some better lighting done for the shoot.

Thanks!