TheseAreMyBrogans

Hi Nina, I’m a big fan of your character designs. I think they’re very appealing, and I’m always impressed by your economical and effective use of line and shape.

My questions are: Is designing characters for Flash a different process than designing characters for illustration, traditional animation, and 3D animation? When designing a character like Sita or Moses, how much time is spent considering/testing how the character can be animated? And at what point in the design process

Do you have any general tips for anyone who designs characters for use in Flash animations?

Thanks so much for responding,it's really awesome to get the chance to talk to you/ask you a few questions!

Sita Sings the Blues is a big inspiration for me, to see one person create an entire animated film. It's a feat I hope to complete for myself one day and if I do it will be because of your influence.

Do you have any preliminary designs for any of your characters you could share on your website? I really love seeing the evolution of a design for animated characters, It'd be really interesting to see early designs for Sita.

I'll ask a few more questions if that's alright!

Nina, you recently posted an image on your website showing a few storyboard sketches, suggesting you don't do many of them. Do you generally have a good idea of how you want to compose/animate without having to plan it out first?

How do you know when a scene/design is finished? Do you ever struggle with not feeling satisfied with what you've created? If you were to re-make Sita, would you do anything differently?

If you can answer this, what's next after Seder-Masochsim?

Anything regarding extending copyrights or the DMCA, and what negative affects these have on content providers I'm curious to hear your thoughts about, so by all means feel free to share your thoughts!

With regards to the Copyright Term Extension Act in particular, (AKA the Mickey Mouse Protection Act), if this act wasn't passed are there benefits that corporations like Disney could have had?

For Nina and/or Sherwin: What do you think of things like the Copyright Term Extension Act?