At Pixar, Steve Jobs' animation house in nearby Richmond, the mood is quirky and relentlessly upbeat.; "Good animators go through the same process as an actor," says Pixar's Peter Docter.; These guys are so sought after that some of Pixar's 55 animators got personal phone calls from Steve Jobs, inviting them aboard.
Says Peter Docter, a young star at Pixar: "Good animators go through the same process as an actor: 'This guy lives alone, relies on his mother, so how does he eat a meal?'"; If you've got the quirky skills, you can get rich.
While there are plenty of puppet animators around, finding good clay animators has proved difficult.
Even before its surprise feel-good ending, animator Dylan Carter's your art is shit will get you to your happy place.
Demand is so good now that animators feel emboldened enough to quit once-prized studio jobs.
Eastern Chad: child animators promote good hygiene practices in Gassire camp Gassire Camp, Eastern Chad, 20 October 2008 - Eight-year-old Halime lives in Gassire, a camp for internally displaced people near the township of Goz Beida, at the Chadian-Sudanese border.
"What feels normal in traditional film feels fast here, and what feels boring in traditional film feels good here," said Lopez Dau, an animator on "Cars 2" and "Monsters University," as he sat in front of a computer mousing through different speeds of the action he had tried over the previous few weeks.
Finally, unlike a lot of animators, including his good friend John Lasseter, of Pixar, he isn't a fan of computer animation.
