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Q: What advice do you give to animators making their fi rst short?
Andrew:
My advice would be: don't overcomplicate it. Just fi nd one idea that you
want to tell, stick with that, and trust it. If it's not working ask yourself why. Don't think
you have to pile a bunch of other stuff on top of it to make it work and make it longer.
Students, especially, will pack so much stuff into the fi lm to try to show what they can
do and to make
the
amazing fi lm. I know I learned so much more by making several
shorter fi lms in the span of a year instead of making only one gigantic opus.
I know at Pixar, when we look at other short fi lms, the thing we respond to the most is
a short, simple idea that grabs us, that we get to react to it, and then it lets us go.
