Fraser Mclean - Guest Lecturer

A few weeks ago we had fraser Mclean come in to talk to us about working in the industry. He has worked on Roger rabbit, Space jam and Tarzan.

He talked about his earliest time at Disney when he worked on Roger Rabbit doing the in-betweens of the shadows of a background cow character, what was funny was he had no idea at the time of how to in-between so he put the first frame on the bottom and the third on top with the one he's drawing on  in-between the two so he had to keep flipping the sheets up to see his drawing and check if it was in the right place until one of the older professionals came over and made sure he knew what he was doing.

the main topic he covered was how to make use of layout and what exactly a layout artist was. covering the areas of how much the artists have to put into the backgrounds and how the camera moves. He showed us the curved perspective backgrounds and extended scenes along with the extensive detail that would go into the mere concept scene sketches, (thus putting us to shame). He also talked about his experiences at the disney archives where he took 10 minutes to start crying and the supervisor he was with said "Well you lasted longer than most."

He was an incredibly relaxed person and was happy to stay afterwards for a few hours to answer questions, although i didn't have anything to ask i listened to my classmates questions.