| | DECEMBER 20228CIOReviewIN MY OPINIONBy David Prescott, SVP Creative Production, DNEG AnimationDavid PrescottA NEW ERAFOR ANIMATION As the animation industry and wider world begin to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, we stand on the cusp of a second golden era of animation. Producers and studios have had to radically rethink the way production flows and artists work. Almost overnight, studios across the world emptied into countless bedrooms and home offices. TV and film production had long been a hold out to the trend of working from home - the technology was there, but studios were always reassured by the certainty and security of the usual, centralized setups.Animation has always relied on creative workforces and collaboration between different artists, both in imagining new scenes and the new technologies or processes to bring those scenes to life. Under lockdowns and with remote working, there were real fears that collaboration could be lost. What nobody expected was that by isolating everyone, suddenly nobody felt isolated.At DNEG, we were up and running in a matter of weeks. There was no longer a barrier to collaboration between Montreal or London, Chennai, or LA in
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