A Love of Film with Carolina Jiménez García, Lead Layout Artist, Scanline | TVAP EP25

02/16/22 • 57 min

This week Daniel caught up with Layout Artist who has 7 Oscar Nominated films, as well as an Emmy and a Goya under her belt!

Many of our Spanish speaking audience may already be familiar with Carolina as she runs an incredibly popular VFX and film Youtube, blog and Twitter account as Okingrafia. Carolina is a Lead Layout Artist at Scanline, most recently on projects like Free Guy, Moonfall and Eternals. Her career spans the Globe and major studios such as Dneg in London, Scanline in Canada, and Weta in New Zealand where she fulfilled her dream by working with the Lord of Rings crew on the Hobbit trilogy.
In this episode we roll back the curtain on the Layout Department, a little understood and vitally important part of VFX and animation pipelines. We find out what it takes to become a Layout Artist and Layout Lead, hear Carolina’s advice for artists, learn a little about working in Canada and find out about her favourite projects.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 : What to expect and Intro
00:02:25 : Meet Carolina
00:05:47 : He's a pandemic dog
00:06:48 : Layout and overview of the department
00:12:29 : The start of Carolina's Career
00:15:16 : Software used in Layout
00:18:03 : OKinGrafia - Carolina's filmmaking channel
00:19:50 : A snippet from OKinGrafia (Spanish)
00:20:15 : Carolin'a research for her content channels
00:24:06 : Favourite Project to Work on: The Hobbit Trilogy
00:26:39 : Taking those first steps in the industry
00:28:04 : Planet of the Apes
00:30:20 : When your work gets cut from the movie
00:31:59 : Overtime and keeping the team happy
00:33:01 : Working in different countries
00:38:23 : Different perspectives on filmmaking
00:39:20 : Typical working day and working from home
00:41:15 : Why working from home is more productive
00:44:05 : Blended working
00:45:24 : Vancouver
00:46:47 : Are Leads involved in recruitment
00:47:55 : Maya, custom tools and the pipeline
00:51:00 : Layout for Animation vs Live-Action
00:52:02 : The hierarchy and approval process
00:53:49 : Reshoots
00:55:06 : Where to find Carolina online
00:56:56 : Goodbye and outro
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This week Daniel caught up with Layout Artist who has 7 Oscar Nominated films, as well as an Emmy and a Goya under her belt!

Links:

Geek is the New Sexy, blog (Español)IMBDCourses (Español)Twitter (Español)Instagram (English)Youtube (Español)

Thank you for your support!

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The VFX Artists Podcast - A Love of Film with Carolina Jiménez García, Lead Layout Artist, Scanline | TVAP EP25

Transcript

00:00:00.160

i didn't know anything about leia and i was i panicked at one point because you're supposed to pick what what department what speciality you want to have and i didn't know i like everything a little bit and i didn't know which one to choose and it turns out that's good news because in layout we do a little bit of everything we have to we have to build the scene in a way that it is presentable to the director

00:00:27.277

because the reason why i dec