Episode 60: Sarah Blank

Animalators

Sarah Blank is a freelance animator, compositor, designer and sometimes-writer/director. In the episode, we chatted with her about CG and live action compositing, Travel Oregon and user interfaces in VR.

Links:

Website: www.thesarahblank.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-blank-96062b11/

Travel Oregon: https://bit.ly/2N7dnfb

NYU Tisch: http://tisch.nyu.edu/

Nomad Editing: http://nomadedit.com/

Notes:

-Apple screen graphics

-Game of Thrones Season 1

-Compositing (CG and live action)

-Travel Oregon

-The forest for the trees approach

-NYU Tisch

-Nomad Editing

-Editing vs. Compositing

-Editing on Game of Thrones

-Seasons of freelancing

-Husband, Dave Blank

-Coordinating freelance schedules and taking time off

-California Bloodbath

-Giving yourself deadlines on personal projects

-User interfaces in VR

-Commonalities in top-level work across studios

-Pigeon-holing artists

-Improving as a director

-Dream client: Michel Gondry

-Favorite animated film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

-What do the people you love think you do at work all day?: CG modeling and animating

-Animalator: The Ouroboros