{"id":5295,"date":"2020-05-04T00:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T22:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2025-03-06T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:15:10","slug":"the-humbling-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/the-humbling-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"The humbling encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nik_part_three.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5494\" srcset=\"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nik_part_three.jpg 450w, http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nik_part_three-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nik Ranieri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Once in a while in your career or just even at the start of your studies you will meet some unique individuals that will feed your self-doubts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst studying at Animation Mentor back in 2006, I was marveling at the work of several students that eventually became CG animation superstars, then later during my animation career, I came across few profiles that could animate three times better and three times faster than I could, so I just kept at it, with the belief that it might take me longer, before eventually succeeding.<br><br>If it is not just procrastination stirring us away from our goals, some of us just need to work harder to succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FctzuFr_sml.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5509\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Nik Ranieri (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0710181\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nik Ranieri<\/a> gave up animation when he first came across 21 years old <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"James Baxter (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5osZk9Mw94w\" target=\"_blank\">James Baxter<\/a> while working on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Roger Rabbit (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gpDaNqSXxp0\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Rabbit<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty close but Nik Ranieri kept pushing and like Baxter, he ended up also, writing his name on Disney&#8217;s history books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prince of Egypt Pencil tests\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DrV_3AVsSKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Baxter line tests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to this fun Nik Ranieri&#8217;s recollection of that encounter in the third part of an other memorable <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Animation Podcast interview (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/animationpodcast.com\/album\/all-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animation Podcast interview<\/a>.<br><br>I am posting a direct link to the interview as the libsyn link in the interview page is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"now broken (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/animationpodcast.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/05\/nik-ranieri-part-three\/\" target=\"_blank\">now broken<\/a>, the main page works though or click below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Direct link to the podcast:<\/strong><br> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/animationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AP_2005_09_05.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/animationpodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AP_2005_09_05.mp3<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Related posts:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-animation-with-a-moustache\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/youtubecom-i-love-you\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-animation-with-a-moustache\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/james-baxter-animation-podcast-part-2\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-animation-with-a-moustache\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/the-future-or-animation-is-now\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while in your career or just even at the start of your studies you will meet some unique individuals that will feed your self-doubts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[79,84,115,244,352,389,515,533,586],"class_list":["post-5295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-education","tag-animation","tag-animation-podcast","tag-baxter","tag-disney","tag-hard-work","tag-james-baxter","tag-motivation","tag-nik-ranieri","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5510,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}