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Michael Berardini
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Michael Berardini
@mbirdini
Animator/Sup/Director. Currently @ Dreamworks. Formerly Warner Bros. and Blue Sky Studios. Directed Scrat Tales, Batwheels, bunch of shorts
Joined August 2012
- Today’s the day when I come clean… I animated the sponge upside down and didn’t notice until it was too much work to go back and fix 🤫working on something new 👀
00:00 - lol hey I animated thisHe has the type of sadness in his eyes you only see in medieval paintings
- VINDICATION! People kept telling me no one would understand this gagNO CUZ this was one of the funniest parts
00:00 - This SHOULD be a signal to the industry that original/unique/risky projects are worth every penny… there is an audience for things other than sequels… but we’ll see‘FLOW’ is the first indie animated film to win Best Animated Film at the #GoldenGlobes The film had a $3.8M budget. See the full winners list: bit.ly/GlobeWins25
- Replying to @mbirdinilol I’m not surprised people feel so strongly about which side of the sponge to use. I hope people care half as much about the finished short when it’s done 😅
- Been an adventure workin on this one. Animating Shadow is fun
00:00 - hey I animated this lil dudeReplying to @Stixstixy
GIF - Replying to @colinarmisYeah he’s supposed to be blonde. We tried that for the movie but it looked fuckin weird. A graphic representation that looked like the strips/specials was the way to go.
- Replying to @mbirdiniFirst off - Sonic fans are so nice lol Thank you guys It was my personal goal to get Shadow out of his angry brows as often as I could to make him more relatable… this is a moment where he’s opening up and being as vulnerable as he prob ever has.
- Replying to @mbirdiniHe thinks he’s a monster with no home. If that’s not sad I dunno what is! If you can believe it, this is a toned down version. I pushed the sad puppy dog as far as I could!
- Oh hey I animated the second half of this scene from “Last chance, where is it” to Knuckle’s really long dialogue. The rest of the seq was split by some great animators at Little Zoo and Steamroller 👍
