Any animators in this pliz-ace

[Steve]

Just curious, I stumbled across the censored animation page and followed the forum link here, dare I say this rocks :D

[Psycho Fox]

You mean professional animators? Underground animators? or just animators? I am a arm chair animator and I most just dabble in it for presentations and for my own amusement (and that of my freinds).

[Calhoun07]

I am a cartoonist who has made his own mini comics, but I haven't yet gotten into animation. I love animation to death, just don't know too much about the tools of the trade, which is ironic. I was thinking today that if people met me and didn't know who I was they might thing I worked in animation because I usually have a tie on with animated characters and I have alot of animation DVDs and books on animation and more. I sometimes wonder if I should be doing something else with my life, kinda like Sabrina's response to Miles on Sabrina the Teenage Witch when Miles was going to give up astronomy to persue accounting. She looked at all the wierd things he collects that he has on display in his room, and she said, "Somebody who collects these things shouldn't be an accountant!" Well! That got me thinking!

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by calhoun07
I am a cartoonist who has made his own mini comics, but I haven't yet gotten into animation. I love animation to death, just don't know too much about the tools of the trade, which is ironic. I was thinking today that if people met me and didn't know who I was they might thing I worked in animation because I usually have a tie on with animated characters and I have alot of animation DVDs and books on animation and more. I sometimes wonder if I should be doing something else with my life, kinda like Sabrina's response to Miles on Sabrina the Teenage Witch when Miles was going to give up astronomy to persue accounting. She looked at all the wierd things he collects that he has on display in his room, and she said, "Somebody who collects these things shouldn't be an accountant!" Well! That got me thinking!

Well why not try off with simple stuff. Try animating a ball bouncing on a computer (that where I started) I had the ball start on the top of the screen then bounce off the right wall then the bottom then the left wall then back again stoping just before hitting the top then I looped the animation so it kept doing it over and over again. You should try it worse thing that can happen is you get addicted to it as a hobbie.

[RockItShipper]

I've been taking animation at CalArts for the past two years. Think I might take some time off and take classes in NYC tho'...

[Steve]

I was just curious, I goto Uarts in Philly. I hear Calarts is a happenin' school, one of my teachers went there. Is it true that they own the rights to your films there? I remember hearing that somewhere.

[Calhoun07]

My first love isn't music or animation. It's comics. Ever since my mother bought me my first comic book in 1977 (Dennis the Menace) I knew what I wanted to do. Before that, I was all the time drawing and putting words to my drawings, but when I got that Dennis the Menace comic book (which I still own to this day!) I saw that there were other people in the world doing what I liked to do, and doing it well and for a living! If animation came into focus as an offshoot of that, that would be great, but comic books are my first love.

Unfortunately, there isn't much money to be made in comics unless you are a mega star, but I don't have an interest in that. I love underground comics much more, so for now, mini comics will be the extent of my creative out put.

As far as animation on the computer, I don't have any software to assist me in that!

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by calhoun07
As far as animation on the computer, I don't have any software to assist me in that!
E-mail me and I can hook you up with old software to tinker arround with well not right now, I am totaly busy but e-mail me and when I have time I will

[Dante Bunny]

A future animator that will rise to the top and my own series from Cartoon Network. I will impress Genndy with my art work!

[DR. BELCH]

--before, there's a weird rule in the publishing business, esp. with the comics market: you can't approach a publisher without a portfolio of published clips, but you can't build up a portfolio without approaching a publisher. There are cartoonists who start out in small markets like campus newspapers (the backbone of this great nation), but take it from me, it's hard to get heard even there. :(

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
--before, there's a weird rule in the publishing business, esp. with the comics market: you can't approach a publisher without a portfolio of published clips, but you can't build up a portfolio without approaching a publisher. There are cartoonists who start out in small markets like campus newspapers (the backbone of this great nation), but take it from me, it's hard to get heard even there. :(
That's why god made the underground and amature scene which is a hell of a lot easier to break into. I've knowen people that was able to get their stuff published since they already had a fan base via cons and the net.

[Sharklady]

> --before, there's a weird rule in the publishing business, esp. with the comics market: you can't approach a publisher without a portfolio of published clips, but you can't build up a portfolio without approaching a publisher. <

As I know all too well, this situation isn't unique to the publishing biz. It's called the "Can't Get Experience Until You've Got Experience" box.