Found an interesting interview with Jorge Vigara, Senior character animator at Sony pictures.

It's from "Animationinsider.com" (I follow them on twitter so that's where I found it).

It is a really interesting interview about what Jorge has done and what he thinks is the best part of being an animator.
But he also talks about how he got into animation and how he got his first job as an animator.

The interview is written with fairly poor English grammar, but you get the point.
- I found it useful to read non the less.

You can find the full interview here:

http://www.animationinsider.com/2012/01/jorge-vigara/

Jorge is probably known best for his work on "Despicable me", but he also worked on the short "Alma":



This is a great short-film by Rodrigo Blaasand, now working for Dreamworks.
It's about a curious little girl that discovers a store in a alleyway that sell dolls, but the doll she sees on display in the window looks just like her. So she gets curious and has to go inside...

I really like the animation-style in this short, it's pretty life like and realistic and really shows that she is a young person. There are small, but fast head-movements which really gives the feeling of a curious character. And these quick and "hard" movements mixed together with soft cushioning on hands really makes it look beautiful.

The visual style of the film itself and the assets/character has a cartoon-like style.
The "cartoony-look" makes her a appealing main character, big eyes, two fairly big front teeth, sort of a mix of things you can spot as noticeable in young children.
I also like the fact that she has long hands in comparison to her shorter feet, it makes it easy to see that she is a child.

Lovely piece of animation!