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The TAG Interview -- Nik Ranieri (Part III)

The TAG Interview -- Nik Ranieri (Part III)

Update: 2014-04-28
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TAG Interview with Nick Ranieri

Find all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link


As the 21st century dawned, and Disney hand-drawn animation gave way to its CG cousin, Nik found himself in a quandary. Should he stick with pencil and paper? Or move on to the land of computers and pixels? ...



In this final installment of Mr. Ranieri's TAG interview, Nik talks about animating on Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons, then returning to hand-drawn animation with Princess and the Frog. On later CG features, Nick created hand-drawn test animation like the example below.



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(Note: The video above the fold is only half of the entire interview, the first half. The damn camera ran out of memory, a problem which has now been rectified with a larger memory card.)
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The TAG Interview -- Nik Ranieri (Part III)

The TAG Interview -- Nik Ranieri (Part III)

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