Day 12: Norman Bates Almost Got Us

1/17/20, Today was the trip to Universal. We were able to take a tour of the back lots of Universal Studios. This means we saw sets spanning back decades. We saw sets from Back to the Future, cowboy sets that John Wayne shot movies on, and my personal favorite the actual set of The Bates Motel from 1960. Seeing the place where some of the best movies ever were filmed really put into perspective why I'm here and why I want to make my own some day. After that we went to Sony Pictures Animation. There we got to talk to a concept artist who showed us her work on a commercial for Hotel Transylvania 3. She talked to us about the various processes that went into creating a animated movie. After that we talked to an animator who showed us how they rig up animations for movement. Seeing behind the scenes and learning about Sony's new animated projects was just an amazingly unreal experience.