James Baxter; Animation Podcast, 2008-04-07

The interview concludes with part three as James Baxter talks about learning from the old masters, what inspires him, and his experiences on films from Beauty and the Beast through Madagascar. James was the supervising animator of Belle, Rafiki, Quasimodo, Spirit, and director of the animation for Enchanted. This is part three of a three part interview.

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00:02:55 Intro - James Baxter Animation
00:03:22 Studying animation voraciously - reading The Illusion of Life
00:04:30 Learning from past masters
00:05:21 Supervising at a young age
00:07:49 Philosophy on supervising
00:10:06 Who inspires James today
00:11:53 Creating original performances in animation
00:14:21 The potential for traditional animation
00:17:49 Teaching interns - starting with fundamentals
00:19:28 Looking deeper in to the twelve points of animation
00:20:43 Beauty and the Beast
00:21:32 Quitting Disney and going to Passion Pictures
00:23:29 Supervising Rafiki on Lion King
00:26:20 Designing The Hunchback of Notre Dame characters with Tony Fucile
00:28:04 The Ronald Searle influence on Hunchback
00:28:43 Supervising on Quasimodo
00:29:29 Going to Dreamworks - The Prince of Egypt
00:34:17 El Dorado
00:35:41 Spirit - learning to animate horses
00:39:51 Sinbad
00:41:19 Shrek & Shrek 2
00:43:00 Things learned from CG
00:48:21 Madagascar
00:48:54 Starting a studio - James Baxter Animation
00:51:22 Closing comments
00:52:12 Conclusion

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Animation
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
The Illusion of Life
The Lion King (1994)

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