The tour itself was very interesting! On the stage tour, I noticed that not many people were walking from place to place, rather they were using golf carts and moving to where they need to be a lot faster so they're available. I learned that a lot of the town and city sets are reused in different shows so they don't have to keep recreating these buildings! I also found it quite interesting that instead of having two houses right next to each other when the shot is only of one house, they create a siding of a house to make it look as though there is a second house there. My favorite thing from this tour; however, was learning how they create rain. I have always wondered how they create rain in a scene and I learned that they have an overhead sprinkler system that is above the actors' heads out of shot to make it look as though it is raining in the shot.
To start off I would like to give a huge thank you to Caleb Bomysoad for getting us into this part of Sony! After getting done at Universal Studios, we made our way to Sony Animation! This at first was a little confusing to me because I've always found animation exciting and cool, but the process of it was never something I thought about. I learned that a lot of storyboarding has to go into working on one of these projects and a lot of the time the writing process correlates with the story-boarders. We were told to always put down the ideas that you may have for a movie or show even if it is bad because a bad idea is still an idea and you never know when a spark of creativity can come from that. An animator does a lot of research and exploring to find the right look for the characters! I also learned that each animator gets a clip from the movie and works on the whole scene until its finally complete, then those are all put together to get the final sequence.
To end the day we went to Olive Garden and had dinner with a TC3 Alumni, Andrew Inglin. Andrew is a director who is known for his FabFitFun commercials and being a photographer. During dinner, we got to ask him questions on what it is like for him to be a director and what advice he can give to all of us aspiring to become something in this industry. To begin, he told us when and wherever we start as a P.A. to always be hardworking and do anything we can do on set to stand out. He also showed us what the true struggle of this industry is like and even though a lot of people in this industry do fall to always remember what we started doing this for and to keep pushing for what we want! He also shared with us that as a director you kind of get all the control of what you're working on so everything is a little more lenient, which is such a perk, but only if you work hard!
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