How Do You Animate A Legend?

This video might be on the fringe of what most photographers and videographers are faced with in their own field but I found it really interesting. The whole idea of modeling a modern Mickey Mouse with the classic animations we have grown up watching reminded me of how important it is to really study the details of your predecessors in order to copy or move past what they have already created. Sometimes I feel like a lot of photographers simply follow the lighting they see on a particular blog and expect to have the same results of well known photographers in their own projects. More often than not, what you wind up finding is your final image is no where near as good as the one you've tried to emulate. You really have to take the time to study your craft to make compelling art, and that's exactly what the animators for the new Mickey video game did. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecvgXzSWOI
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Patrick Hall is a founder of Fstoppers.com and a photographer based out of Charleston, South Carolina.

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I read the other day that a bunch of geeks went out and scientifically calculated how and exactly where Ansel Adams took his most famous pictures yet their images looked at best average.