Venting anger so I don't pop a vein - Beyond Tiki

FG Futura Girl Member Joined: Oct 01, 2002 Posts: 933	FG Futura Girl Posted posted on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 4:10 AM On 2002-10-29 12:31, suicide_sam wrote: The one thing schools don't tell you is that in the industry it's not so much what you know as it is who you know. That's the truth! My best advice to the young animator just starting out is to get involved in SIGGRAPH and meet tons of people. After graduating from UCLA I got several great opportunities from the people I met through this organization. Volunteer to work at the annual conference and get active in the Executive Council. Also, after working in the industry for several years, I learned that if you want to truly animate - learn to tell a story. The studios see so many Chromosaurus portfolios and not enough Luxos. Yah you can get a lead on a job with solid technical skills, but you'll really get noticed if you have ideas and understand emotion, motivation and movement - so the really good animators take acting classes, writing worksops and yes, maybe even a mime class! Sadly though, office politics happen everywhere and there is just no getting around basic human nature. Sometimes you get lucky and the issues are minor, but most of the time they are not. Hopefully you are doing something you love enough to get past the bs to make it all worthwhile and learn to be a better more tolerant person from the adversity - or least that's what I keep telling myself :) Oh and tikibot - the PJs was way excellent - highly underated. [ Edited by: Futura Girl on 2002-10-30 04:15 ]

On 2002-10-29 12:31, suicide_sam wrote:
The one thing schools don't tell you is that in the industry it's not so much what you know as it is who you know.

That's the truth! My best advice to the young animator just starting out is to get involved in SIGGRAPH and meet tons of people. After graduating from UCLA I got several great opportunities from the people I met through this organization. Volunteer to work at the annual conference and get active in the Executive Council.

Also, after working in the industry for several years, I learned that if you want to truly animate - learn to tell a story. The studios see so many Chromosaurus portfolios and not enough Luxos. Yah you can get a lead on a job with solid technical skills, but you'll really get noticed if you have ideas and understand emotion, motivation and movement - so the really good animators take acting classes, writing worksops and yes, maybe even a mime class!

Sadly though, office politics happen everywhere and there is just no getting around basic human nature. Sometimes you get lucky and the issues are minor, but most of the time they are not. Hopefully you are doing something you love enough to get past the bs to make it all worthwhile and learn to be a better more tolerant person from the adversity - or least that's what I keep telling myself :)

Oh and tikibot - the PJs was way excellent - highly underated.

[ Edited by: Futura Girl on 2002-10-30 04:15 ]

Post #12305 by Futura Girl on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 4:10 AM