SpongeBob — Circus Circus Attraction

SpongeBob was my first project for an attraction. A machine at the Circus Circus hotel, in Las Vegas.

I had never worked with those kinds of constraints. I had to think about where people would be standing, what they would see, what we couldn't block so they could play well. And the scenes were long, one to three minutes each. When they told me that, I just sat there thinking "how are we going to fill all this?".

Little by little we figured out how it worked. We got more agile, we found shortcuts, and we pulled out good quality, even though the rigs didn't have the level we needed to get where we wanted.

This was the moment they started asking me to help lead. We were a team of three animators. They would upload their work, I would get into the scenes, give feedback, and explain the limits of the rigs so their poses would actually work.

Working on this project was great. The people were open, always up for it, and they helped us get where we wanted. See how it turned out.