These guys are my biggest role models! Joe Ranft especially, after sadly learning about his passing but the work he did. I said to myself: "That's what I'm going to do!" I'll be at Pixar one day ✊💡
Can you imagine....you have to redo and redo and everybody have their 5 cents worth and then you have to redo again! If a director can't work out most of the shot sequences and angles in advance with an artist with somebasic redo's and clean-up. Who's wasting time?
I always wondered, both Live-Action and Animation movies have Storyboards. But an Animated movie gets eddited before it is "filmed", wouldn't it be smart to do the same for Live-Action, to save time and money and kinda know where you're going?
You're right, and they do tend to storyboard scenes where editing is important, such as action or chase scenes, or scenes with a lot of special effects. However, many directors prefer to figure out the shots on-location. But then there are people like Hitchcock, who storyboards everything. I think it makes a lot of sense to have some storyboards, just so you have a general ideal for how the scene should go.
