the game of guardians animator

Nicole Herr is an animator that worked on both the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Game of Thrones series, witch in its self is a fan-boys wet dream, but he has also worked on things like  Fantasia 2000, Stuart Little 2, Suckerpunch, and sphere and thous were just his favorites. Herr  has different ways of animating depending on the type needed, one of the differences is when he acts out the scenes for reference he makes the actions much more broad when he is working with a more cartoon like scenes wile the motion range is shorter when he works on the more realistic type. He also uses lots of references when it comes to the creature type of animation, for instance he might go to the zoo, watch animal planet or use the good old fashion internet, he dose this to try to figure out how each animal moves and what their own "little quirks" as he puts it are. What was really interesting was he said a 240 frame shot takes about 40 hours but more complex shots can take months some can take up to a week for 4 seconds. The last one peace of advise to the aspiring is make your shots simple and plan a head.

   I really love the thing this guy has worked on, Stuart little was one of my favorite movies growing up, not to mention I am a huge game of thrones fan and his the list of animals that he used  references making the dragons that appeared in seasons 2 and 3. I also like the advise given simply because this one told me that i should do less work (it told me to keep it simple same thing basically) the rest of the advise was just regurgitating the same old thing like act it out. All and all it was cool to read about some one ho worked on something that has a huge fan following so nice job finding it.