Quick Reminders
For this week’s blog, I’m doing a bit of self-advertising to talk about a video series I’ve started called Quick Reminders. The videos focus on the adventures of two stick people, New Cheerful Employee and Disgruntled Senior Employee, as they explore the dos and don’ts of office life in POT. It’s rather enjoyable, but it’s taught me a few things in the short time I’ve been working on them.
First, animating videos takes a long, long time. The first video I did was only about three minutes long, but it took a good six hours to put together, even with computers doing most of the work. I can’t even fathom how long it would take for a professional animator to put together a half-hour or hour-long cartoon, since they’d have to put far more effort into the artwork than I do. Next time you watch a cartoon, take a moment to thank the animators for throwing countless hours of their life into making a project designed solely for your amusement (particularly those cartoons done before the advent of computers, when everything had to be hand-drawn).