Discussing "Blue Eye Samurai" with the Production Designer Toby Wilson

In this episode of Psycho-Cinematic, Vic sits down with Toby Wilson, the production designer of "Blue Eye Samurai" (2023) to discuss the show. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:45 Toby’s background 3:23 Blue Eye Samurai in trouble 6:44 Web design for The Lord of the Rings 8:08 Designing video games vs animation 9:38 Thoughts on video games today 11:25 Relationship with animation studios 13:17 Pay as an animation union member 15:45 Downtime between projects 17:33 Role as a Production Designer 23:37 Collaboration with different software 24:45 Blue Eye Samurai render requirements 26:01 Blue Eye Samurai storage space 27:14 Background painting vs matte painting 30:13 Designing massive sets in CG (world build) 33:49 Animation compositing 36:36 Simulation and hand animation 39:05 Camera motion 41:51 Son of a Dungeon 42:45 Advice to aspiring animators 45:44 Do you need to go to college? 48:12 Blue Eye Samurai season 2 49:00 Outro Psycho-Cinemtaic Merch: https://www.bigvicmedia.com/store/sho... Listen to Psycho-Cinematic on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6jeNRyg... Follow Toby on IG:   / tobywilsonart   Follow me on IG:   / bigvicmedia   Follow me on TikTok: @bigvicmedia