Writing Challenge #2

Even the best animators struggle in animation sometimes. According to this source, Mike Hollingsworth, supervisor director for BoJack Horseman, said that his most difficult moment was when he needed to animate a speedboat race. It was a very specific thing to animate, not something you learn in school. Naturally, he had to look for reference and apparently had to animate the same scene twelve times over. This happens to every single animator.
For example, according to this source, Lino DiSalvo, the head of animation for Frozen and animator supervisor for on tangled, and Bolt.  He himself said that there was a very challenging scene in Tangled where Flynn is dying in Rapunzel’s arms. He said that he thought he was good at animating subtle emotion, but that was on another level. Another example, David Stoddolny, animated a 3 second shot that took a month. It was an elaborate fighting shot with Po and the wolves from Kung Fu Panda.
All these examples really demonstrate how much work is put into some animations for even very short scenes. Some scenes that last a few seconds can take weeks or months to animate. When even some of the most respected and talented animators like Lino DiSalvo find animation complicated, you know that it’s a skill that takes a lifetime to perfect and should be appreciated a little more.