‘Migration’ Director, Composer On Facing Animation & Musical Challenges For Avian Pic – Contenders Film L.A.
deadline.comIllumination’s upcoming film Migration is a comedy about a family of ducks trying to fly from New York to Jamaica. Writer-director Benjamin Renner makes his 3D animation debut, and John Powell wrote the score for his film.
Renner told the audience Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film Los Angeles event that Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri assured him he could pick up 3D animation on the job. “When I do 2D, basically I have a blank page,” Renner said. “I start to draw lines.
I stop as soon as what I want to express is there on paper. If I want to draw a duck, I draw three lines. Some call it minimalistic.
I call it lazy.” Renner said he found the difference between 3D and 2D is that 2D is additive, where 3D is subtractive. There are so many elements, including texture, lighting and shading, that Renner found the process a matter of taking out things that didn’t belong. “You have to remove elements, make them with shadow and light,” Renner said. “You go from everything and you remove things.
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