Episode 58: Wesley Louis

Animalators

Wesley Louis is a Director at The Line Animation out of London, UK. In this episode, we talked about The Line’s team structure, hiring freelancers and Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit.

Links:

The Line: www.thelineanimation.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/librabear/?hl=en

Tumblr: https://librabear.tumblr.com/

Blogspot: https://librabear.blogspot.com/

Gorillaz - Humility: www.thelineanimation.com/work/gorillaz

Jamie Hewlett: http://jamiehewlett.com/

Aya Suzuki: http://ayasuzuki.blogspot.com/

Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit: https://bit.ly/2NHxro8

Electric Theatre Collective: http://electrictheatre.tv/

Partizan: https://www.partizan.com/

Notes:

-The Line

-The Line's team structure

-Founder meetings & complimentary strengths

-Hiring freelancers

-Gorillaz

-Jamie Hewlett

-Aya Suzuki

-Enforcing cinematic animation perspective

-The Line funding their personal projects

-Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit

-Celebrating personal projects in a big way

-Setting deadlines for personal projects

-The post-mortem process for commercial work

-Electric Theatre Collective

-The Line’s business structure

-Looking forward

-The Illusionist

-Partizan

-Wesley’s story of process and growth

-Becoming a director

-Dream Client: Nike or Capcom

-Favorite animated film: Kiki's Delivery Service and Akira

-What do the people you love think you do for a living: Draw and make things move.

-Animalator: Rabbit, because of Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit