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00:06 You're about to see Nightmare, which is one of my two student films.
00:09 This film was made in my senior year of the character animation program
00:13 at the California Institute of the Arts.
00:16 In this program, you really did everything on these films,
00:19 from coming up with the story idea, designing the world,
00:24 designing the characters, doing layouts, the animation,
00:29 even shooting it under the camera.
00:31 You did everything.
00:33 Nightmare is a pencil test, which is the preliminary form in hand-drawn animation.
00:38 And so when you watch this, you'll see everything seems to be transparent.
00:42 Well, that's because the layers of drawings were backlit,
00:45 so you could see the bottom layers through the top ones.
00:49 I kind of thought about that, and I did a lot of stuff with black marker to black it all out,
00:54 to try to make it a little higher production quality for a pencil test.
00:59 The collaborative spirit that is alive here at Pixar really started
01:04 at the character animation program at CalArts.
01:06 We'd all get together and kind of look at people's films and make notes and comments.
01:11 And I had a lot of really good friends that helped me,
01:13 helped me out with suggestions here and there.
01:16 But in the end, at that time, you did everything yourself.
01:20 I was a bit of a procrastinator.
01:22 The hardest part of making these films was getting them done,
01:26 because I would wait way too long to start my project.
01:30 It's interesting now having five sons.
01:33 I go to them, "I was a procrastinator.
01:36 Please don't be a procrastinator in your life."
01:40 Now looking back after all these years, I'm actually really kind of proud of it,
01:46 because it's really sweet in the end.
01:48 And I kind of forgot about that.
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