Got a few hours today to work on this one some more, hope that I’m not overdoing it!
A few rendering issues, and the last verse still isn’t finished.
My wife is much more hardcore for walking around in 90degree weather for 12 hours and going on rides than I am. I got my butt kicked, but it was amazing and I’m ready to get back to work.
My commission model! Help us stay ahead of rent!
And what do you think? Is it time for me to publish an album? Should I do music commissions?
About that: if a picture is worth a thousand words, a song is worth a million. If I do music commissions, they can’t come cheap. I may need help from a few on negotiating prices and terms if I do music commissions (such as redistributing said commission in a published album or not etc).
What are studios looking for? How can I get into a good animation school? What should I be studying?
I get a lot of these types of questions now and again, and I never know how to answer them. I can’t be sure of what studios are looking for, I don’t control admissions policies to schools, and I have little idea what makes for a current and relevant curriculum. There are a lot of variables in your bid for a career in animation, and it’s kind of impossible to control most of them. You must be crazy to want this job!
I find it helpful to focus on the things I can control. Among those things are your study habits and how you spend your personal time. It’s good to work hard and have goals—without them we would get nowhere. Study hard and make decisive strides towards achieving your art goals. But in the heat of that pursuit, don’t forget to go out and live your life!
If you spend any amount of time looking at artists online, you’ve probably figured out by now that there are about a million dudes and dudettes in internetville who draw better than you (I relive this realization daily). Once your have done your best to rise to their level, the only tool you have to compete with these crazy talents is your background, your personal character—is you!
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.
I know this advice is not particularly animation-specific, but maybe that’s for the best. At any rate, it is something I feel strongly about. Animation is great, and there are few things that I enjoy doing more than drawing and storytelling. But in order to have stories to tell, first you have to live them.
Be good, and see you soon!
PS, if you were looking for advice on draftsmanship you should probably be reading this.
Wise words from my wife’s friend Anthony Holden
(via ktshy)
Talk about uncanny! I randomly ran into Mic at Disneyland on my honeymoon!
Pictured from left to right are Kiersten, Ben, Mic, and markI
Sorry for all of the delays thus far, there’s a lot of preparations to our wedding that I’ve been attending to and I’ve started a summer semester.
I will need to put all work on commissions on hold until I get back from my honeymoon. Thanks for your patience!
Feel free to take a look at my commission model until then
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zedrin-stormshock asked: Was more thinking it corresponded to a certain artist's rant/fight with anons that took place like 15 minutes prior <.< >.>
Haven’t seen anything, I’d rather stay out of it.
While people often say offensive things, usually ignorantly or unintentionally, it is your choice to be offended. A calm explanation will ensure understanding without loss of respect.
#9 - how not to be a dick
zedrin-stormshock asked: (Private) by chance was that in regards to someone in particular?
No one in particular, just been thinking about the way I treat people and working on my own flaws. I see this behavior on tumblr a lot, and it makes me examine my character sometimes.
Sometimes the tone of your boiling-over passion sounds like ranting, or a lecture. People don’t like to be talked at. Remember that you’re still having a conversation with a human being who isn’t yourself.
#8 - how not to be a dick
