ENTERTAINING THE FUTURE IDinosaurs - Beforo the Beginning Mike Milne FrameStore A couple of years ago - well, three actually - I was called to a pre-production meeting by one of our producers. Now these meetings are always a problem in o u r profession, because they always take place while you are awake. And the problem is that if you are awake, you're in one of several stages of increasing panic - depending on how many days there are to run before the delivery date of whatever animation you're working on and the idea of taking time out ro attend a meeting is about as welcome as the idea of Thanksgiving dinner is to a turkey. So, when a pre-prod meeting looms, the first question chat the producer tends to be asked is "Can'r you find someone else to do it? I'm trying to finish these Hypo-EnergisingVitamin blobs for a shampoo commercial!" (or words ro chat effect). This occasion was no different, and I asked the question. "No, I think this one's right up your street" was the producer's reply, followed by those honey-coated words that guarantee you'll drop everything and appear, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, notebook akimbo
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