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Victor
Navone
Interviewed
by Marcio Bukowski 20-12-2001
- Victor Navone, was interviewed by Márcio Bukowski
(3DMentes).
Victor, becames worldwide famous , after he unleashed
his Short Film, called Alien Song over the internet.
In this animation, the little green Alien (see picture),
named Blit, sing and mimic Gloria Gaynor, singing "I
Will Survive" , with a "subtle" surprise
at the end...
After the sucess of his animation,
Navone was invited to work at PIXAR Studios.
Bukowski
: How is your work at Pixar? Do
you just animate? Do you design characters and
make set ups? Navone
: Normalmente eu somente animo.
Mas ocasionalmente eu também faço alguns StoryBoards.
Bukowski
: How do you prefer to animate
characters? IK on legs and arms? FK on arms?
Morphing on face? Navone
: That really depends on the needs
of the shot I'm working on, but in general I use FK on arms
and IK on legs. In the face I like to have individual controls
for each part of the face, instead of generic expressions in
morph targets. For example, instead of having a "smile"
control, I'd rather have separate controls for lifting and pulling
the corners of the mouth, parting the lips, puffing the cheeks,
etc. This allows for a lot more subtle variation in facial expressions.
Bukowski
: Who were the animators that more
influenced you and those who you like
nowadays? Navone
: nowadays? I never paid much attention
to animation until I started doing it about 3 years ago, so
I don't know a whole lot of animators' names. Of course I'm
influenced now by the classic work of Chuck Jones and Disney's
9 old men.
At Pixar I get a lot of inspiration (and
feedback) from Doug Sweetland, Andrew Gordon, Gini Santos and
Bobby Beck, to name just a few.
Digital Paint - Photoshop
Bukowski
: Do you still use Hash AM? Any
other 3D software? Which software do you use
for composition? Navone
: I still use Animation: Master
for my character modeling and animation. I use After Effects
religiously for compositing, special effects and post-processing.
I'm also looking into Cinema 4D for some of my non-character
stuff.
Bukowski
: What is you hardware at home?
And what is it at pixar? Navone
: At home I work on a Macintosh
G4, and sometimes on my wife's Pentium 2. At work we have SGI
Octane 2s.
Bukowski
: Which are your favorite movies
and what have you seen recently that mostly
enjoyed? Navone
: I enjoy just about anything by
Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. Lately I'm
a big fan of Steven Soderburgh and Wes Anderson. I'm also a
big fan of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films, especially his latest,
"Spirited Away".
Bukowski
: When did you realize
that you would be an animator and when did you notice
that you realy have talent for that?
Navone
: I figured out that I
could actually animate about a few months after I started
trying in 1998. I never thought I would actually get
work as an animator (nor did I ever intend to) until
after I completed Alien Song and the email and phone
calls started flooding in.
» Still imagem
from "Alien Song".
Bukowski
: How is the 3d animation marketplace
there? Is it better for the guy that
animate, model, make light? Navone
: That's hard to say. You would
probably have better luck getting into a company that makes
computer games. The film animation business is hard to get into
and is very competitive. I'm very lucky to have gotten in as
easily and quickly as I did. Having diverse skills is good,
but if you want to be an animator then your animation skills
should shine above everything else.
Bukowski
: What project are you currently
working on at Pixar? Navone
: I am working in the Shorts department
on promotional materials for Monsters, Inc., as well as the
next Pixar Short.
Victor
Navone
