Lisha Tan is a Creative Director at The Mill in Los Angeles, CA. In the episode, we chatted about The Story of O.J., reading YouTube comments and managing creative limitations as a director.
Links:
Portfolio: http://www.themill.com/portfolio/filter/collection/103/lisha-tan
The Mill: http://www.themill.com/
Lilchotchke: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lilchotchke
Resolution Design: http://www.resolutiondesign.com.au/
The Pirates of Somalia: https://imdb.to/2M955Gd
Notes:
-The Mill LA
-Mill+
-Project processes
-The Story of O.J.
-Jay Z
-Reading YouTube comments when a job goes out
-Giving and receiving notes as creative director
-Communicating vision on a project
-Transition to creative direction
-Coaching character animators
-Personal pitching process
-The Mill’s internal resources
-Pitching vs. pre-production
-Lisha’s process of ideation
-Managing creative limitations as a director
-Lilchotchke Ceramics
-Lisha’s mentors
-Resolution Design
-The Pirates of Somalia
-Developing personal style
-Favorite animated film: Spirited Away
-What do the people you love think you do at work all day?: I don’t they know--messing around with cartoons.
-Animalator: A little hybrid cat-thing because people tell me sometimes I’m like a cat.
**Note: The Mill worked with JAY-Z, Roc Nation and Director Mark Romanek via Anonymous Content to create the animated music video for ‘The Story of O.J.’
Lisha and The Mill artists realized JAY-Z’s vision using a combination of hand-drawn cel animation, computer graphics, and painted backgrounds, collaborating with Titmouse to animate the original characters.