by Rodimus the Prime » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:53 pm
- Motto: ""Great Leaders inspire Greatness in others.""
I used to work in the animation biz, and I can say that mistakes with scale, or things like paint pops, disappearing mouths, (disappearing anything really), non-moving limbs, voice mistakes, naming mistakes, colour mistakes etc. are common when you're doing a weekly tv series. The Deadline is God, basically, and that means that it has to get done, and done fast and right on time, or there's trouble. As a result, things can and do get missed in the process because there is a lot to do, a lot to look at, a lot of communicating to do, and all while your in a hurry. Even if you manage to catch a mistake that you missed, if you're too close to your deadline, tough beans...it get's put out, because Deadline is God!
Indeed I have much empathy and enormous respect for the people who worked on any old series without the aid of computers and digital painting, editing and fx software. You can be guaranteed that these people did see the mistakes afterward, and just had no choice but to grin and bear it. Granted, on the positive side, it does toughen you up, since it's not an uncommon thing for artists of any medium to spend too much time fussing on a piece of work and not putting it out.