{"id":7045264,"date":"2026-08-23T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animation\/animation-industry-roundtable-practice-makes-perfect\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:10:23","slug":"animation-industry-roundtable-practice-makes-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7045264","title":{"rendered":"Animation industry roundtable: Practice makes perfect?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"subtitle\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How important is practice to the craft of animation? In this panel discussion, we invited four industry artists with experience as either instructors or mentors to talk about how they honed their craft. The livestream covered suggestions for practicing skills related to storyboarding, rigging, or animation, as well as common misconceptions about practice itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The panelists included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidneygaleart.com\/\">Sidney Gale<\/a> (cleanup artist on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helluva Boss<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/felipea.nimation\/\">Felipe Almeida<\/a> (senior animator on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Day the Earth Blew<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Up), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edentimm.com\/\">Eden Timm<\/a> (director on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lego Monkie Kid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> season 5), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindsayknowler.ca\/\">Lindsay Knowler<\/a> (Harmony rigging artist on <em>Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article is an excerpt from our roundtable discussion hosted in January.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Panel Discussion: Practice in Art &amp; Animation I Table ronde\u00a0: Pratique en art et animation\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OxPT-MQouss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Sidney: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi, I&#8217;m Sidney Gale. I graduated with a BFA in animation in 2020. Pretty much right out of college, I started doing tiny freelance animation-related work along with a lot of personal work, just animating whatever my heart desired and drawing whatever my heart desired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that led to a lot of updating my demo reel over and over and over again until I finally landed a test with Spindle Horse. There I worked on the season one finale of <em>Hasbin Hotel<\/em> and then went on to work on season two of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helluva Boss<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m still currently working at Spindle, but I&#8217;ve also done some work with some smaller indie productions like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/littlegoodsheep.bsky.social\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bleating Heart<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Allie Vanaman and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rXHtmjPIURU\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enceladus V<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[by Anna Lencioni]. And then I&#8217;m also currently working on some upcoming projects with What Pumpkin Games and Jellybox Studios.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Felipe:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I&#8217;m Felipe.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I joined the animation industry in Brazil back in 2010, and for a long time I&#8217;ve been doing preschool-type of TV shows. A few feature films here and there. I moved to Vancouver in 2016, worked on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Little Pony: The Movie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, then worked on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carmen Sandiego<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> season one and two. I was an animation supervisor in the most recent <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peanuts<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shorts for Apple+, and since then I&#8217;ve shifted my whole working dynamic to be a full-time freelancer in the traditional animation side of the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I worked on stuff like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disenchanted<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the 2D animation section of the movie. I worked on the yet-to-be-released in North America, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So I&#8217;m excited to see that one when it comes out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yeah, I&#8217;ve been in the whole thing for around fifteen years now, and it still feels like I just joined. Every time I join a new project, I&#8217;m nervous as hell and just trying to do my best one day at a time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Eden: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m Eden Timm. I&#8217;m from Saskatchewan.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve been working in the animation industry in British Columbia since 2012. I started as a 3D animator, then snuck into 2D and kind of bounced back and forth for a few years. In 2016, I was firmly 2D only, just because I like to draw when I can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I became a supervisor in 2018. And then I got the chance to direct on a multimedia kids\u2019 show with Global Mechanic called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fjVz9br_GDM\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jam Van<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It was a YouTube original series that had a bunch of Broadway stars like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Boyz II Men and a bunch of pop stars on it.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s very cool. Very chaotic with all the different live action collage work, Harmony builds, hand-drawn stuff involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then I went to Wild Brain. I worked very briefly on the Peanut shorts. Then I got to direct at WildBrain on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LEGO Monkie Kid\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> season five. And then when the industry hurricane hit, I was able to sneak into boards and got to do some board revs on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LEGO Dreams<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and do some freelance boards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I&#8217;ve been purely just animating since like the beginning of 2024. And next week, I start at Giant Ant on their feature, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tangles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which I&#8217;m very excited about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lindsay: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve been in the animation industry for almost fifteen years at this point. I&#8217;m also another one of the Vancouverites.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve had to move across the country a couple of times. So I definitely understand what that feels like to new artists looking for work. And from the animation industry, I worked at all the studios here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do Harmony rigging. 2D rigging is my trade. And then from there, I started working with you at Toon Boom, and I became a senior solutions specialist, which was a fancy title for a senior trainer. And that was probably the most incredible job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was flying around the world, teaching studios how to use Toon Boom and how to use the programs in a really efficient way. And helping teams thrive in a pipeline environment.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then when the pandemic hit, it just changed the industry. So I think I became very curious as to what that was going to look like for artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had at least ten years of experience by that time working in-studio. And I really fell in love with working with interns. Because digitally, we were all working from home, and they didn&#8217;t really have a lot of exposure to anybody else in the studio atmosphere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I just thought, \u201cHow neat would it be to create an environment where, no matter where you are in the world, you can still connect with professionals?\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was probably the key thing that&#8217;s missing from the animation industry now. That we probably took for granted back in the day. You could look over their shoulder and see what they&#8217;re working on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I created an animation mentorship collective called Eat Your Peas.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And our mission is to really create more opportunities for younger artists, to connect with professional artists, and try to get that behind-the-curtain sneak peek of what the process is.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title-4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you define practice when it comes to art and animation?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Lindsay: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s such a good question. It&#8217;s hard to define, especially in art and animation, because you have all these different streams. And there&#8217;s different things that you can practice. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things that we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about at Eat Your Peas is the difference between style and structure. And so a lot of people are really good at style because they&#8217;re free form. And they&#8217;ve really honed in on what it is they&#8217;re good at.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they might be lacking structure to the volumes underneath. These are intangible, invisible skills that you have to poke at with a stick and repeat over and over again to get good at. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s why we practice life drawing. If you are paying attention to what you&#8217;re doing and you&#8217;re practicing with a purpose, you will see progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sidney: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it&#8217;s so amorphous.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> W<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e were talking about how there are so many skills that go into animation. It isn&#8217;t just drawing \u2013 it&#8217;s drawing and timing and gesture and structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So to come up with something all-encompassing practice is really difficult. I think it&#8217;s anything that gets your hands moving and gets you creating. If you are making something, especially something that you enjoy, that would be a good definition for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Felipe: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who teach music sometimes like to separate what is practice time and what is playing time.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s so much involved in what it means to do animation. Drawing is just what&#8217;s on the surface, right? There&#8217;s the physics, there&#8217;s the acting, there&#8217;s the psychology at times that you need to dive into, like what happened in the life of this character.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it&#8217;s just so overwhelming to think of every single ingredient that\u2019s involved in making a good piece of animation. I find for myself that the best thing I could possibly do was to separate practice from actually performing; animating something and separating little pieces of what a performance needs and tackling it one at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like to start with separating it into smaller things; like making an arm stretch and release in a solid, convincing way. So I make little exercises so I can master the most basic things. And then I just add layers on top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Eden: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So like everyone else has touched on, practice is a very abstract thought, and it has to be approached differently for every person, and it will be approached differently for every department. For me, practice is embracing curiosity, looking at stuff and being like, \u201cHow did they do it and why did they do it that way?\u201d and then applying it afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it&#8217;s passive and active. There\u2019s the intentional stuff that Lindsay was talking about. And the passive stuff is a little bit like the play that Felipe was talking about. The skills I&#8217;m trying to foster when I&#8217;m practicing are investigative skills, remaining excited and curious. And then afterwards, there&#8217;s a level of consistency that you need to keep up to make it worthwhile. But also practicing gentleness with myself, because working full time is a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes I&#8217;m firmly in the passive practice of just observing and intaking information for months before I ever get to the active, applied practicing, just because I have other responsibilities. But both of those are equally important. You have to find a balance that suits you best and achieves your goals the best way possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when I&#8217;m trying to get a promotion or move up in from a supervisor to a director role, I am hyper-focused on applied stuff, getting my hands in there, figuring out how to do it to show people that I can do it. And then when I&#8217;m just comfortably in a role, I&#8217;m just passively experiencing and investigating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title-4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is your own relationship with practice like? And what do you like to do to practice to keep your skills sharp?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Eden: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My own relationship with practice is pretty rocky. When you work in the industry for long enough, you get really comfortable and used to making high-level production things. You\u2019re hitting these beautiful marks of quality.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then you go to do something on your own. You&#8217;re like, \u201cI got this. It&#8217;s gonna be so easy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have the insight and the skills to know how to make this work. But there&#8217;s other people doing the boards, other people doing the backgrounds, other people doing the builds, other people doing the comp, the sound, the direction sometimes. And when you have to do it yourself, it&#8217;s really easy to fall into a bit of self pity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for me, practicing a lot of the time is like babysitting myself, like, \u201cTonight you\u2019ve got to buckle down and you have to do something a little bit boring. You&#8217;re going just draw a bunch of hands because it&#8217;ll be good for you. \u2018Eat your peas,\u2019 Lindsay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lindsay: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s exactly what Eat Your Peas stands for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Eden: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But then other times it&#8217;s a lot of play. I have a dollar store sketchbook that I make the ugliest things.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I draw with Crayola markers when I&#8217;m doing animation practice. I specifically export it as a low quality GIF just so the pressure is off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lindsay: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that my relationship with practice has really changed because my relationship with work has really changed.I&#8217;m not working in a studio as much anymore. I&#8217;ll take freelance projects, but I wouldn&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m working at those speeds that I had to work at while I was working in studios.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I started surfing in Montreal, and that is such a hard thing for me to practice. But it really reminds me every time I fall, which is every thirty seconds, that it&#8217;s fun. I&#8217;m not getting hurt.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m here to fail. But I&#8217;m here to also get back up again and to keep trying, and whether that&#8217;s through playing around and turning your brain off or doing something a little bit more structured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside of the stuff I get paid to do, I really like to take something that I&#8217;ve never done before, or something that I&#8217;m interested in figuring out more, and then something that I feel really comfortable with, and mushing those two things together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of the stuff I do is character-based, so my practice specifically is taking a look at anatomy and gesture, and then making those two things either fight it out or seeing how I can get them to coexist peacefully.\u00a0 For a little while I was actually teaching a six hour gesture drawing class.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> F<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or the first half we would do studies based off of Line of Action.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But then in the afternoons we would have live animals and people come in and we would do drawings from life, which is very very important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing something\u00a0 in real life activates those different parts of your brain than just staring at a screen. We would also do field trips. We would go visit the zoo, an acrobatics class, coffee shops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Felipe: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hearing you guys talking about gesture drawing: that&#8217;s actually something that I have as a goal for this year. If one of those subtle coffee shop sessions are happening right now, please invite me. I would like to join. For a long time in my early days in animation, because I didn&#8217;t have access to guidance, I had to find my own ways to get the skills I wanted to learn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a long time, traditional animation was really the focus of my personal study. My study sessions were looking online trying to find entire sequences of old scenes from Disney movies. I would import those to Toon Boom with a transparent background. I used to go to Andreas Deja&#8217;s website all the time because he has tons of high quality material like that. I would try to understand how people at that time planned their work, how they dealt with spacing, how they dealt with performance, how they expressed certain things graphically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve struggled for a long time with producing personal work because I&#8217;m not naturally a character designer. Every time I had to create something for myself as a practice routine I would get stuck in the character design part of it. I&#8217;ll do a very rough silhouette of a character, just thinking shapes. Then I start animating very loosely. By the end of a couple days the motion tells me what the design needs to be. That lets me be able to practice more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C3nrVaMxX8c\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"title-4\">H<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ave you encountered misconceptions about practice, and do you feel it&#8217;s possible to practice in ways that might not be as helpful?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Eden: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I find a lot of people push themselves into a corner that they don&#8217;t want to be in like for a really long time. I thought that I should practice how to digitally paint because that&#8217;s what \u201creal\u201d artists do. But I found that no matter how often I practiced, it felt more like homework that I dreaded doing.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that&#8217;s one way to practice in a way that&#8217;s not helpful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there are times where I become so obsessed with getting better that I end up hurting myself. You have to take care of yourself. You have to remember to drink water. You have to remember to rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lindsay: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are so many ways that you could practice and not get better.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are constantly doing the same thing, or you&#8217;re not really paying attention to what you&#8217;re doing, that is probably the biggest way that people can waste a lot of time practicing. Because they&#8217;re not making gains. They&#8217;re not getting better if they&#8217;re not getting feedback.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other thing is impatience. I think a lot of people get impatient with their results.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They&#8217;re not happy with what they&#8217;re producing, which can become very frustrating. And that will shut a lot of opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best way for people to practice is really to also teach. When you&#8217;re teaching, you&#8217;re learning a language. That&#8217;s probably how you practice the fastest, but that&#8217;s definitely not something that will come to mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sidney: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think as long as you are actually creating something, it&#8217;s kind of hard to practice wrong. I&#8217;ll get into the mindset where I&#8217;m so caught up on making something perfect that I put things down and I don&#8217;t pick them back up forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As long as you&#8217;re getting over that first hurdle, it doesn&#8217;t have to be good.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It just has to be done.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How important is practice to the craft of animation? In this panel discussion, we invited four industry artists with experience as either instructors or mentors to talk about how they honed their craft. The livestream covered suggestions for practicing skills related to storyboarding, rigging, or animation, as well as common misconceptions about practice itself. 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