Story & Comedy - How to make it work / LEGO Movie 2, LEGO Batman filmmaker Trisha Gum - Interview

Discover how writers, storyboarders but also animators and the actors developed the story and comedy of the recent LEGO movies.
In this interview filmmaker Trisha Gum talks about story development and comedic timing. Find out how jokes have to be tweaked throughout the process as they go through storyboards, animatics and animation. Last but not least we hear about the organization WIA women in animation who fights for equality for women in the animation and VFX industry.
Trisha Gum worked as the head of story for the LEGO Batman movie and the co-director for the LEGO movie 2. At the FMX 2019 a conference for animation, VFX and VR she talks about the stories for these animated feature films have been developed and how all the different creative artists contribute and influence what we see on screen.

[@lobiethecartoonist5285]

I don't know how this doesn't have more views-It's professionally done and is extremely insightful, especially as somebody who'd like to be a director. Amazing work! 👀

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

This is your best work yet! You got excellent audio you got a great location that is not in the way of the janitor. :D Excellent use of B-roll, professional work all around for you and your crew.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

I just did a rewrite of my script mid way of making my animation. The hero character had unlikable dialog but I didn't notice when writing the script. The voice actors sent their audio and it still seemed fine. Only when I went to animate it did I realize it was too rude and out of character. Funny how that is. So I changed the dialog to her inner thoughts then it worked.