Motion Spotlight with Chris Georgenes

Join us on this Animation centric Spotlight with Creative Director and Animator, Chris Georgenes. Chris will go over his extravagant story on how he started his career, deconstruct a scene from Home Movies that he directed and show a variety of select animations throughout his career. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a true animation pro LIVE!
Chris Georgenes is a Creative Director and Animator based in Boston, MA: keyframer.com/
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00:00 Start
01:57 Chris’ introduction and background
05:45 Transition to art college and early career
09:49 Saying “yes” to projects you’re unsure about
14:54 Creating Dreamworks pilot without animation experience
21:07 Working on Home Movies
27:17 Solution for creating a 5th episode
32:40 Chat Q&A has Chris done animated music videos; impact of Flash on Chris’ career
34:08 Chris’ favorite animated shorts
37:02 “Book!” project, making time for personal projects
39:40 Chat Q&A What does Chris think if AI in animation, and what trends does he see in animation
43:08 Chat Q&A What’s Chris’ dream project, walkthrough of “Book!” in Animate
48:07 Teaching animation summer workshop
50:07 Audio editing, composing background music
52:28 What’s next for Chris

[@munkduane]

Chris is THE KING! Thanks for the composing call-out :)

[@AlexHogue]

Chris, it was awesome hosting you! LOVE the behind the scenes stories!

[@keyframer.]

Thank you Alex! Loved it!