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Today's topic is animation, part two. Part one looked at our involvement in the process, but today we're

excited to have with us some real pros at animation. We're working with them on our current animation project, Vivo.

To people from live action, the hardest thing to get your head around is often the separation

of layout, camera, and lighting. So we thought it would be fun to have the heads of layout, camera, and lighting.

So we thought it would be fun to have the heads of layout and lighting on Vivo to join us

and allow us to go deeper into the actual process of creating animated films. We're pleased to have with us today

Yangdaq Jun in charge of layout on Vivo and Andy Harkness who oversees the

lighting on Vivo. Thank you both for being here.

Before we dive into the actual process,

could you tell us a little bit about yourselves

and how you got into your field?

Did you know you wanted to get into animation from a young age?

Hi, I'm Yondok-John.

I'm from South Korea originally in 1997.

To U.S. to study and work in animation field.

I mean, everybody loves animation, right?

I mean, I grew up with Warner Brothers

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