{"id":817775,"date":"2024-11-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/?p=817775"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:43:50","slug":"how-aaron-blaise-created-snow-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/how-aaron-blaise-created-snow-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"How Legendary Animator Aaron Blaise Created His New Short Film, Snow Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this video, legendary animator <a href=\"https:\/\/creatureartteacher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aaron Blaise<\/a> walks through the inspiration and process behind the creation of his new short film, Snow Bear. Inspired by the austere beauty of the arctic, and the graceful movement of bears in general and polar bears specifically, the soon-to-be-released animated short film centers around themes of isolation, found family, and the power of creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with his team, he animated the entire short film on his own using his <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wacom-cintiq-pro-pen-display\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wacom Cintiq Pro 32<\/a>. From inspiration, to research, to storyboards, to rough animation, to finished drawings, to backgrounds, to color and lighting, he showcases his entire process. Watch the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How Legendary Animator Aaron Blaise Created His New Short Film, Snow Bear\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7151BpK2h0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2024\/10\/aaron-blaise-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Blaise Headshot\" class=\"wp-image-817778\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2024\/10\/aaron-blaise-headshot.jpg 549w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2024\/10\/aaron-blaise-headshot-480x536.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 549px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the artist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/CreatureArtTeacher.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aaron Blaise<\/a> spent 21 years at Walt Disney Feature Animation, helping to create some of the greatest animated films ever made. During that time he worked as an animator or supervising animator on \u201cThe Rescuers Down Under,\u201d \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\" \u201cAladdin,\u201d \u201cThe Lion King,\u201d \u201cPocahontas,\u201d and \u201cMulan.\u201d In 2003 he was co-director of \u201cBrother Bear,\u201d for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After \u201cBrother Bear,\u201d he helped to develop several projects but ultimately left Disney to pursue an opportunity back home in Florida. Aaron is currently involved in a number of film projects for various studios. He also recently developed a short animated film called \u201cSnow Bear.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He publishes tons of video content and livestreams on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0lLeNdvLrFozQRsQ1TQiAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>, and you can follow him on social media on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronBlaiseArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X (Twitter)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aaronblaiseart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheArtofAaronBlaise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>. He also has countless art tutorials and lessons on his website, <a href=\"https:\/\/creatureartteacher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creature Art Teacher<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, legendary animator Aaron Blaise walks through the inspiration and process behind the creation of his new short film, Snow Bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":817777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2326,2481],"tags":[5511],"class_list":["post-817775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-artist-feature","tag-aaron-blaise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}