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Source: Gabor Horvath

Here’s another progression reel by Jeff Gabor from Ice Age 3. This one is incredibly resourceful because of how thorough it is. Every stage of the shot’s development is shown. Would be animators can gauge just how much work it takes to make a shot like this that breezes by so quickly. This has already been posted at Animation Progression Reels, but I’m posting a high definition Quicktime download which is great for frame by frame analysis.

Jeff Gabor put together some great progression reels (click to watch, or right-click and download) that show the process of this digital animator from reference footage to final shot. There’s a ton of these kinds of reels over at Andrew Root’s fantastic Animation Progression Reels blog, but I haven’t seen this one yet.

Thanks to Jeff and Blue Sky for putting this stuff together. It’s amazing how resourceful it can be to watch the blocking and reference footage of top animators at top studios. It can really give you that shot in the arm to finish whatever shot you’re working on.