A day in the life: Senior animation supervisor Liz Bernard

04.06.24Explore a not-so-average day in the life of the Digital Domain animation mastermind.

Liz Bernard has overseen incredible work on projects like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Free Guy, and Captain Marvel. Once upon a time though, she was just a child enamoured with the slapstick style of Looney Tunes cartoons. “I saved my allowance and bought Chuck Jones’s autobiography. That sparked my imagination and I realised this could be a career.”

Bernard studied theatre design and ran a photography business in West Africa before enrolling in the online school Animation Mentor, moving to Canada, and landing an animator job at revered VFX studio Digital Domain. Since then, she has gradually worked her way up to become senior animation supervisor, and sat down with 3D World to explain what her role looks like on a day-to-day basis.

08:30 Like most people in this industry, I work from home now, so my mornings are a little more chill than they used to be. I start with half an hour of exercise most days, have breakfast, take a shower, walk the dogs, and sit down at my desk around 9am, sometimes a little earlier if I want to get ahead.