Kyle> The second half of this interview doesn’t play on my iPod either. Perhaps we could get a re-encoded replacement?

Awesome Splinecast, really looking forward to part 2!!

His story he told of his take on Rocky’s reaction was hilarious! I keep wondering about how Pixar was in the early days (well, not so early, the Bug’s Life days). I wish I could see some pictures of the old studio you guys had.

Doug is really admirable, we got to watch his student film (and Mark Oftedal’s too) and they are both really amazing, extremely amazing considering they are student films. As BNicolucci said his lectures are real eye openers, they make you think of animation in a whole different level.

Again, thanks!

Sant

Carlos is right. Great animators are always busy. Each reader of this site need to be clear, to getting such wonderful share and be able to leave feedback is our privilege, not the right. Anyway, I’m thankful that currently the animaton environment is much better than 5 years ago, then there is much less info and materials on Internet. Blog is a HUGE resource for us, let’s keep a good use of it and foster it. Each people who would like to share these should be respected. They enrich the whole animation environment, keep it away from a close, confidential, “back to back” one.

Thank you all.

Long time ago I hope to see a Doug Sweetland interview. You know in 2005, The Strut Your Reel web site interviewed some of animators includes Bluesky’s Mark Behm, your co-worker Cameron Miyasaki, R+H’s John K. Goodman, and Bluesky’s Michael Thurmeier. When Mike was asked which artist he would like most to see on the Strut interview, he said Doug Sweetland. If he could leave a question to him, he will ask how Doug can handle such complicated overlaps that gain a incredible real feeling. That is just what I want to know.

Also, in your past post “Overlap” on Jan 04, 2006, You mentioned the famous shot of “Woody walks out of the Box”. The more I saw about Doug, the more I hope to know more about him and his history. I like your post very much and translated and re-post on my blog to let more Chinese animators to know those animation mosters. See here:
http://hi.baidu.com/victoranimator/blog/item/bb76490ff40ea52a6159f356.html

Compares to other Pixar animators, Doug is always keep a low profile, he is kind of mysterious. Very few info about him on the Internet. The only talks was Scott Clark(the pre-doctor?) and Doug on Cars, that’s not enough at all.

Doug did so many excellent shots that became classic later, Woody walks out of box, Sully faints three times, Syndrome laughs at Mr. Incredible”You sir truly are, Mr, Incredible, I idolized you” but “Mr, Inc calling for help?”So HOT!

When I knew the latest short of Pixar “Presto” is directed by Doug, and supervised by YOU, I thought, The chance is coming. Haha.

Congrats and BIG BIG Thanks for your work and all your contributions to SplineDoctors! Very hope to see the next part soon…

I was lucky to meet Doug at Annecy this year but couldn’t find any clever questions to ask him. You are doing such a great job at interviewing people.

Thanks Andrew for that great interview once again.