{"id":5987,"date":"2020-03-27T08:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sislercreate.com\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:55:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:55:52","slug":"industry-talk-with-animator-universal-ride-designer-tony-mecca-_-march-27-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/2020\/03\/27\/industry-talk-with-animator-universal-ride-designer-tony-mecca-_-march-27-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Talk with Animator &#038; Think Tank Training Mentor Tony Mecca _ March 27, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony has been a professional animator for about 10 years now working in both video games and feature films. During his time as a video game animator he contributed to all aspects of game development including the award winning control system in Conduit and Conduit 2. He also assisted in design, concept and weapons systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony has since transitioned into feature film where he has animated on an extremely diverse set of both VFX and full CG animated movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He worked as a lead Animator at&nbsp;<strong>Rhythm and Hues<\/strong>&nbsp;for almost 2 years animating on \u201cMr Poppers Penguins\u201d, \u201cAlvin 3\u201d, \u201cSnow White and the Huntsman\u201d, and \u201cR.I.P.D.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Blue Sky Studios<\/strong>&nbsp;on \u201cEpic\u201d and \u201cRio 2\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Digital Domain<\/strong>&nbsp;on \u201cXmen \u2013 Days of Future Past\u201d, \u201cLost River\u201d and was the animation lead on \u201cFast and Furious 7\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony is currently at&nbsp;<strong>Magic Leap<\/strong>&nbsp;as a senior animator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"335\" width=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sislercreate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ready-For-A-Challenge-Facebook-Ad-6-1024x536.jpg?resize=640%2C335\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5950\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Animation\/VFX Reel\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/78601926?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VFX\/Game Reel\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/47433553?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4348622\/\">Tony Mecca &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recorded Event:  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1l9zkDbdEQ0ivcf_Q_zCbT1IhsmLRJYWF\/view?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1l9zkDbdEQ0ivcf_Q_zCbT1IhsmLRJYWF\/view?usp=sharing<\/a>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony has been a professional animator for about 10 years now working in both video games and feature films. During his time<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/2020\/03\/27\/industry-talk-with-animator-universal-ride-designer-tony-mecca-_-march-27-2020\/\">DIVE IN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sislerhighschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}