We know that our HTC Vive has been a big part of keeping morale up in the studio and inspiring our animators by encouraging them to interact with animation from new perspectives.Ħ. Working in a new and exciting medium like VR or AR isn’t exactly an everyday occurance. Whether it’s jumping into their scene to assess their work in a fully immersive 3D environment or to just muck about in Google’s Tilt Brush, a VR viewer is always a good call. If you happen to sit in the direct vicinity of an animator that’s listening to the audio of their scene over and over and over, slap a pair of these on their head and it’ll save you from feeling like you’re living in Groundhog Day. A decent pair of noise-cancelling headphonesĭoesn’t matter if you want to listen to music whilst you’re animating to keep you focussed, or to better listen to the sound from a scene you’re working on, a good pair of headphones that keep out all distraction are a godsend for any animator.
Or you can just mount it to a wall and stick up x-rays to make yourself feel important and doctor-y. Using one of these babies is definitely the best way to go about it.
Even if your studio doesn’t really do anything that isn’t digital, there’s something therapeutic about getting your mitts on some stationary and putting nib to paper. In a similar vein, these backlit tracing pads are great for animators that still yearn to do traditional hand-drawn pieces. If your animators are expected to sit through meetings and concept building sessions, you can bet they’ll be much more productive with a nice set of inking pens, brushes, pencils, pastels, sketchbooks, markers and coloured pencils livening up the desk! Squinting at a screen all day does take its toll, you know. It can be mighty refreshing to dabble in more traditional media on occasion. Just look at Cuphead, a video game that blew us all away with its 24 frames-per-second hand-drawn visuals based on 1930’s cartoons that displayed a style never before seen in video gaming. There’s something charming about putting down a stylus and doing some good old fashioned hand-drawn animation. So whether you’d like to treat this post as a ‘gifts for animators’ resource, you’re an animator that wants to improve their abilities, or if you’re just a bloody generous production manager that wants to treat your animators – read on to find out what an animators desk isn’t complete without. At Fudge, we’ve worked out that you can find inspiration and renewed motivation just by having a few extra bits and bobs on your desk. By nature, animation is a repetitive job. I refuse to say “creative juices” (ew) but every studio definitely needs something to keep their animator’s creativity flowing. 10 things that complete every animator’s desk
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