End of Day

When I find myself animating a personal project or a feature film, I have one frame that I will never end the day on. If I want to stop for the day and pick up the animation again tomorrow, I will make sure that I either pass frame 13 or stop before frame 13. I will never walk away from the stage if I am on frame 13. Of course, once I pass frame 13, I’m comfortable and will end the day on whatever frame it happens to be. I did have one very long stop-motion shot that challenged that superstition.

That was frame 666.