Anim Supervision – The Art of Boris Maras

Animation Supervision

Assistant Animation Director

Animation Supervisor

Assistant Animation Supervisor

(Uncredited)

On a day-to-day basis the most direct way to give notes to our animators was to provide drawovers on their animation. These would also usually be accompanied by a written summary of the notes for easier tracking or translation to their native language.

**WARNING: The drawings below depict violent and sexual content **

Sometimes the simplest way to give a note to our animation team was to provide live action video reference. Whether it was to help demonstrate complex body mechanics or to get ahead of a sophisticated acting shot that we anticipated would need special attention. Below are a couple examples.

In other scenarios, video reference wasn’t the clearest way to provide feedback or just wasn’t feasible (like kneeing someone in the face). In these examples the notes were more focused on the posing, appeal, and overall timing of the actions. Providing some rough animation was a more specific way achieve the notes we were looking for.

Below are a few examples of drawover notes that I provided to the rigging department. The goal here was to make sure the character was able to hit the poses that were in the storyboards as closely as possible.

About Me

I’m an artist with over 13 years of experience in the animation industry. Most of that time has been spent at Walt Disney Animation Studios as an animator on films like Moana, Wreck-it Ralph 2, Frozen II, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto and Strangeworld.

I’ve worked in multiple disciplines including Visual Development, 2D Digital Animation, 2D Traditional Animation, and CG Animation spanning almost all types of media from Feature Films, Short Films, TV series, Commercials, and Marketing.

I love to draw, I love to animate, and I love to push myself and learn new things.

Thanks for visiting!
-Boris