Discussing "Blue Eye Samurai" with the Production Designer Toby Wilson

In this episode of Psycho-Cinematic, Vic sits down with Toby Wilson, the production designer of "Blue Eye Samurai" (2023) to discuss the show.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:45 Toby’s background
3:23 Blue Eye Samurai in trouble
6:44 Web design for The Lord of the Rings
8:08 Designing video games vs animation
9:38 Thoughts on video games today
11:25 Relationship with animation studios
13:17 Pay as an animation union member
15:45 Downtime between projects
17:33 Role as a Production Designer
23:37 Collaboration with different software
24:45 Blue Eye Samurai render requirements
26:01 Blue Eye Samurai storage space
27:14 Background painting vs matte painting
30:13 Designing massive sets in CG (world build)
33:49 Animation compositing
36:36 Simulation and hand animation
39:05 Camera motion
41:51 Son of a Dungeon
42:45 Advice to aspiring animators
45:44 Do you need to go to college?
48:12 Blue Eye Samurai season 2
49:00 Outro

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