As part of the #McFarlandUSAEvent blog team, I got to do some pretty cool things thanks to Disney. All opinions, as always, are 100% my own!
Just 5 more days until TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast is released on Blu-ray, Digital HD, and Disney Movies Anywhere! My daughter has seen the previews and heard me talk about it and cannot wait for Tuesday to come to be able to watch it. 24 other bloggers and myself were fortunate enough to interview Story Artist Ryan Green and Animation Supervisor Mike Greenholt of this great Fairy film. We learned a lot about how Gruff, the NeverBeast, came to be in the film
Story Artist Ryan Green
Ryan first started out with giving us some information on what he does as a Story Artist:
Ryan: I was a Story Artist and in case you don’t know what that is, as a Story Artist we usually work with the Director, the Writer, the Head of Story, and we’ll sit in a [conference room] and we’ll throw around story ideas and try and figure out where we want to take the story. And then we set it for the time, the Story Artists will run back to our computers and we’ll draw up a bunch of panels and then we bring them back together and cut them in a reel and look at them and say ‘is this looking good?’ and it’s usually no and then we go back and we do it all again. We actually cut about 4 or 5 different full movies. You saw the last version of it, so there’s a bunch that never make it to the public. Personally, I work specifically with a lot of the Fawn and NeverBeast moments in the movie.
I’m a 20-something stay-at-home mother and wife. I have an amazing husband, a beautiful daughter, two loving dogs, and a lazy cat. I wouldn’t change my life for anything! I love to read, listen to music, cook and blog!
My nieces love Tinkerbell. The behind the scenes animation is so interesting.
What a great interview. I have always been fascinated with computer animation. SO much goes into it!
what an awesome experience! I would love to do something like this one day! Congrats!
This was a very interesting read. I’ve always thought that computer animation is so interesting. It’s amazing how much goes into it. I mean, they have to use layers and layers to get their finished product.
This is so cool. I would love to learn how animation works
Tinkerbell is adorable!
Very cool! This looks like an awesome movie. I can’t wait to see it.
What a wonderful interview. Animation sure has come a long way, hasn’t it. Thanks so much for sharing with me 🙂
You must had SOOO MUCH fun going to this event!! I can’t wait to see what other interviews you have!
This sounds like a super cute movie. I love it when you get behind the scenes picks.
I am so excited about this movie!
What a great interview! And I loved this movie!
Super cool- & I can’t wait to see this!
Animation trips me out. So detailed.
we are huge tinker bells fans here so we are very excited for this movie! animated films are so amazing now and so much better than when i was younger.
Even though I have boys, I love the Tinkerbell movies. I’m really excited about seeing this one!
Animation has come so far in the past 20 years, its amazing!
As a kid I dreamed of doing something with art full time, as a teen I thought it would be cool to be an animator… only I lacked any decent talent! LOL Its very cool to get a behind the scenes peek!