Article about the making of the short Feast and the return to short film making at Disney Animation Studios -
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/disney-feast-animated-short-film-big-hero-6
Just a "taste" of the article -
Which brings up a nagging question about the entire endeavor of making an animated short film at a major studio. From a financial perspective, it seems totally counterintuitive. Unlike animated feature films, which have a built in revenue stream at the box office and beyond, these animated shorts are, in Osborne’s words, “an art project. There’s no financial return.”
So why sink so much money and time into them if there is no chance of seeing that investment back? “They do them to grow talent, mainly,” said Osborne. “It’s difficult just being an animator to just say, ‘I want to supervise a feature,’ and be trusted with that. That’s not going to happen. But everybody can apply for every [animated short] job internally. So, like, Brian Scott, my head of animation on the short, had never done that here at the studio. Josh Staub, the effects [supervisor] on the short, has never been a VFX supe before. And I’ve never directed before. So that’s their main goal — to try people out, see how they work together.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/disney-feast-animated-short-film-big-hero-6
Just a "taste" of the article -
Which brings up a nagging question about the entire endeavor of making an animated short film at a major studio. From a financial perspective, it seems totally counterintuitive. Unlike animated feature films, which have a built in revenue stream at the box office and beyond, these animated shorts are, in Osborne’s words, “an art project. There’s no financial return.”
So why sink so much money and time into them if there is no chance of seeing that investment back? “They do them to grow talent, mainly,” said Osborne. “It’s difficult just being an animator to just say, ‘I want to supervise a feature,’ and be trusted with that. That’s not going to happen. But everybody can apply for every [animated short] job internally. So, like, Brian Scott, my head of animation on the short, had never done that here at the studio. Josh Staub, the effects [supervisor] on the short, has never been a VFX supe before. And I’ve never directed before. So that’s their main goal — to try people out, see how they work together.”
