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°○ Excuse me while I have a MOMENT. ○°
10 years ago
Okay. THE LION GUARD IS HIRING 2D ANIMATORS. The freaking Lion Guard. How COOL would it be to animate on a Lion King tv show?! My 10 year old self would DIE IN SHOCK AND DELIGHT. But like I said, I am having a moment right now. Because I am kicking myself. Kicking kicking because 1. the job is in Canada and I do not have a permanent residence card or anything like that and 2. I don't even have an animation showreel. And why not? I want to be an animator! What have I been doing for the the past few years? Idk, being lazy, dragging my feet? Working full time to pay my loans! That is what. But I cannot keep working full time to pay my student loans and rent etc. at a job that the student loans weren't even for. A job that I technically could have found with no college.
I graduated from Bowling Green State University in December 2012. It has been three years and I have been applying to jobs in the industry all three years. Yet, no calls. Part to blame is being in Ohio. Part to blame is me not having any recent animation to show. I would like to blame my professors in college in part, because I could only study 3D animation there and I did not enjoy 3D animation. I fought with the professors every year to be allowed to produce Flash animation and lost every year with them saying "No, of course not. Flash is being phased out and only 3D will exist very soon." Now it is 3 years later and as I go through all of these job positions I see 2D Flash Animator everywhere and 2D Toonboom Animator everywhere. Yeah it is not the most common thing, but it is out there, hiring, unlike my teachers predicted.
My new years resolution was to apply apply apply like crazy and so far I have applied to 10+ companies for multiple positions. I think I need to change gears though, and build my animation portfolio instead and save money to move. I need more art, and to move to the industry area. In my previous journal about the new year I did mention moving and saving money. This is all still true.
In July katalist and I are still moving to Georgia! To save money for the move to the west coast. I was debating where on the West Coast, but I talked it over with Kat and we are much more enthused about the Vancouver, British Columbia route. We feel much more excited about Canada than California. We still hope to go to SIGGRAPH this July for inspiration if we can swing it. And then next year SIGGRAPH is in LA and the following year it is planned for Vancouver. 2 years sounds like a good amount of time to build a strong portfolio and money to move to Vancouver, apply for permanent residency cards and all that jazz, find a home there near Vancouver and be in location by SIGGRAPH 2018. Obviously I will be applying for jobs during that entire time. I won't be just waiting for 2018 to try. Just, instead of pouring days each week into job applications I will be doing more animation instead.
i would like to purchase ToonBoom to learn, when I went to SIGGRAPH in 2012 I was blown away by how much better than Flash it seemed to be. I will probably be resubscribing to Animation Magazine as well as it was a major inspiration and kept me connected to new trends in the industry.
For this winter/spring I will be working full time, finishing MFF commissions and doing some small animations to warm up. By summer my commissions should be done, and I can animated more. I am currently debating not selling at GLFC so that I do not move to Georgia with a queue... or if I sell ((because I did already purchase my table)) maybe premades only and badges. We will see! And on that note, what premades would YOU like to see?
Would there be any interest in an animation Patreon from me? Maybe I could generate some small income for pursuing animation <3
Thanks to anyone who actually read that! I mostly just needed to vent my frustration and ideas about what is going on in my life. I am very excited about getting on track again and eventually, moving to Canada! If they will have Katalist and I, of course!
I graduated from Bowling Green State University in December 2012. It has been three years and I have been applying to jobs in the industry all three years. Yet, no calls. Part to blame is being in Ohio. Part to blame is me not having any recent animation to show. I would like to blame my professors in college in part, because I could only study 3D animation there and I did not enjoy 3D animation. I fought with the professors every year to be allowed to produce Flash animation and lost every year with them saying "No, of course not. Flash is being phased out and only 3D will exist very soon." Now it is 3 years later and as I go through all of these job positions I see 2D Flash Animator everywhere and 2D Toonboom Animator everywhere. Yeah it is not the most common thing, but it is out there, hiring, unlike my teachers predicted.
My new years resolution was to apply apply apply like crazy and so far I have applied to 10+ companies for multiple positions. I think I need to change gears though, and build my animation portfolio instead and save money to move. I need more art, and to move to the industry area. In my previous journal about the new year I did mention moving and saving money. This is all still true.
In July katalist and I are still moving to Georgia! To save money for the move to the west coast. I was debating where on the West Coast, but I talked it over with Kat and we are much more enthused about the Vancouver, British Columbia route. We feel much more excited about Canada than California. We still hope to go to SIGGRAPH this July for inspiration if we can swing it. And then next year SIGGRAPH is in LA and the following year it is planned for Vancouver. 2 years sounds like a good amount of time to build a strong portfolio and money to move to Vancouver, apply for permanent residency cards and all that jazz, find a home there near Vancouver and be in location by SIGGRAPH 2018. Obviously I will be applying for jobs during that entire time. I won't be just waiting for 2018 to try. Just, instead of pouring days each week into job applications I will be doing more animation instead.
i would like to purchase ToonBoom to learn, when I went to SIGGRAPH in 2012 I was blown away by how much better than Flash it seemed to be. I will probably be resubscribing to Animation Magazine as well as it was a major inspiration and kept me connected to new trends in the industry.
For this winter/spring I will be working full time, finishing MFF commissions and doing some small animations to warm up. By summer my commissions should be done, and I can animated more. I am currently debating not selling at GLFC so that I do not move to Georgia with a queue... or if I sell ((because I did already purchase my table)) maybe premades only and badges. We will see! And on that note, what premades would YOU like to see?
Would there be any interest in an animation Patreon from me? Maybe I could generate some small income for pursuing animation <3
Thanks to anyone who actually read that! I mostly just needed to vent my frustration and ideas about what is going on in my life. I am very excited about getting on track again and eventually, moving to Canada! If they will have Katalist and I, of course!
It might be worth setting one up, I think. I just see so many artists do Patreon and it is really hit or miss. Also, best wishes on your move! Everyone's going somewhere!
Also, I really hope the best for you, Steph!
Follow your dreams! You have a start, and you have a passion for it! You've got your whole life still ahead of you and plenty of time to get to where you want to be. YOU CAN DO IT!!
So yeah... I do have the BFA but it's not doing much right now. I might go back to school somewhere else or take classes online to push my portfolio. Which might be better so that I can choose what I need to do instead of making crud up like in BG. so much that had nothing to do with what I wanted to be doing.