Producing Animation

Foreword

A gray ocean. A black sky. Forty-foot waves pound the deck of a large ship that is being tossed about in a violent storm like a toy. A helicopter emerges from the clouds cutting a momentary path through sheets of blinding rain towards the vessel below.

Imagine being pushed out of the helicopter and lowered by a thin cable down to the troubled ship. You hit the deck hard, holding on for dear life, as a huge wave breaks over the bow. You stagger onto the bridge cold and wet, only to discover that the new high-tech navigation systems are down. You have been charged with taking command of the ship and steering it towards a top-secret location. You rally the crew: a rag-tag team of over 200 men and women assembled from around the world, who ...