![]() ![]() All Rights Reserved.īrooks continued: “That’s something that we’re always improving on…And of course, just the amount of knowledge in the workflow and the secrets of the animation know here are amazing.” One show we might be working with cars, another fire characters, and another, you might go back to humans.” Disney/Pixar. Each show has its different style, characters and shape language. “One of the great things that I’ve learned is being versatile with styles. So there’s a balance that we need to find with that,” explains Brooks. “We have controls that can manipulate the edge of the character and, there’s a layer of simulation that gets put on top of that. This film in itself also presented the Pixar animators with the added simulation of fire and water on top of already moving characters. So they did, and audiences will see snapshots of other stories and lives, like a boy proposing to his girlfriend-and other added details when watching, thanks to the animators. And Peter Sohn, the film’s director, asked them to really hone in on bringing relationships to those characters as well. Those are then sent to crowd tech artists who use it to populate hundreds of background characters, it’s then sent back to the animators so they can add more specific details to the acting. As Brooks describes, his work starts by creating short clips of animation that can be used to populate the world-from how characters walk to how characters talk. “How does that move? How does it interact? We are always thinking about how can we innovate, how we can push things or bring something to the audience that’s new that we haven’t seen before.”Īs a crowds animator specifically, audiences will see much of his work in the feature in essentially all of the background characters. I wanted to push my capabilities and my skills and just be able to challenge myself to bring to life fire and water,” says Brooks. I thought it was a really cool challenge, and I thought it was a really cool world. “When I first heard of the concept, I loved it. The film takes place in a city where fire, water, land and air residents all live together-but two inhabitants in particular-Ember, a fire resident (played by Leah Lewis) and Wade, a water resident (played by Mamoudou Athie), end up bonding and discovering that they actually might have a lot more in common on the inside than what meets the eye. To him, it’s about getting your foot in the door and asking for feedback-and “as much as you can because you need someone to give you fresh eyes and to guide you, to help you elevate each step of the way.”Īfter joining Pixar, Brooks worked on ‘Cars on the Road’, and now, the feature film ‘Elemental’ as a crowds animator. ![]() While landing the role and after the fact, the artist took advice from those who worked at the company. “We also show a different range of characters: So maybe an older character or a character from this kind of background, or one from this kind of world…Because for example, someone from Columbia might behave differently to a situation than somebody from France.” Disney/Pixarīrooks continued: “It’s a compilation of all those things that showcases what we can do as an animator, and the ideas that we can bring that are different and unique.” For example, dialogue-characters communicating to each other, or pantomime nonverbal communication or showcasing emotional acting or comedic acting,” Brooks explains. “It’s a showcase of different things that we’re able to. But to gain a spot, the animator had to put together a demo reel while in college. Drawing and tracing his favorite characters (which spanned figures from Pixar, Looney Tunes, and Dragon Ball Z) led Brooks to studying animation in school, and then to the 2021 internship at the company. ![]()
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