Mind Your Business: Working with Star Voice Talent
Howard knows a lot about working with talent. Besides his experience as an executive and producer of some of the greatest animated features, Max started his career as an actor. His first acting experience was jumping off a sinking ship on the backlot of Pinewood Studios in the war film The Heroes of Telemark. In that film he acted with Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris. He has spent his entire business career of 50 years working with and beside great talent.
You need to make sure you plan ahead for these and other issues as you move into production, whether it's a studio film or an independent feature. You will have a successful production when you when you are properly prepared.
Want more info on producing your own animated feature? I am hosting a Master Class teleseminar/webinar with Max Howard on March 4th. We will go over all the details for producing an independent feature. I will grill him on how much name voice talent costs. He'll spill the real scoop on the making of Iron Giant. He'll share what it was like to work with Michael Jordan. You will have an opportunity to ask him your questions about producing your own animated feature. Go to http://www.HitMakerSeminar.com for more information and to register.
Mark Simon is an award-winning animation director/producer. His animation is online at www.FunnyToons.tv. He is also the co-founder of www.SellYourTvConceptNow.com.
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I think Marcus' point--one which I know all too well--is that howard talks the talk, but can't walk the walk. Anyone who's heard him "talk" the game might be fooled. Anyone who's worked with him know's he's full of it.
I have to disagree, Max was a speaker at the Animex festival which I attended last week. He was the last speaker and closed the show. Along with James Baxter he left me totally inspired and had the audience like putty in his hands.
Seems as if max's bio is a BIT padded. I'm sure he's a nice fellow, but except for [possibly] the igor movie, everyone who worked on the films he's claiming to have worked on knows he was very peripheral, and had little input or impact on any of the productions he claims--ESPECIALLY from a creative point of view. I doubt much will be of use from a lecture with him.
Chandra,
If you can't hire someone to sketch your layouts, why don't you look for references? Find images of forests that have the look you want and model from that? Maybe you can take photos of forests yourself. Or even mock up some models or paper cutouts to use as reference.
There are lots of great books with forest references and some forests have wild designs naturally. You could take photos and manipulate them and layer them in Photoshop to get the look you want.
You can also approach other artists you know and pitch them your idea and see if anyone wants to help. Start with people you know, as that's an easier pitch.
There are many options for you to explore. Good luck.
Mark Simon
Hi,
This is Chandra sen an animator from Manipur.
I wanted to make 3D short film by myself up to now i almost complete my Characters, Scripts, textures and probs but i stuck in sets actually i wanted a dark green jungle something like avatar, king Kong if i got sketches for this jungle i can do model myself but I'm not so good in sketches so please help me out from this. I hope you'll surely listen my words. I plan to start from April without your help i can't complete my project as well.I'll be waiting your reply with very high expectation.
Chandra sen sigh
Thank you....
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