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I'm Animated
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17 December 2004
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I've decided where I want to go with my life. I've decided that, in the long term, web design/programming isn't what I want to do full-time.
Ever since I first saw Wallace & Gromit in the early 90's, I've loved animation. I remember buying a plasticine pack and making my own versions. Unfortunately our video camera wasn't capable of single-frame recording (this was before the digital age) so I wasn't able to make any real animation. Up until my early teens, Nick Park was my idol.
Skip forward a few years and Pixar shows up with Toy Story. That reignited my want to do animation, though now it was obviously in a computer. At that time I'm not sure I even owned a computer, or if I did I was just a casual user. It's only as the years went on that I turned into the semi-geek I am now. A few years back I got into 3D modeling though it was never really more than playing around or doing a module for my degree (most probably remember Dave the penguin, voiced by John
).
The past couple of months I've been experimenting with it more and more and I've ultimately decided that my wish is to do that as my occupation. My ambition is to work at Pixar, though I share that with just about everyone else into Animation. They really are the pinnicle of the industry.
So how am I going to get on the ladder? Well, an online animation diploma is starting in January, and it's run by guys working for, amongst others, Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks and ILM. It's a year-long animation course split into 4 units of 3 months each. Enrolment is imminent, and I'm going to be applying. Demand is going to be huge - this is the first time that non-California and non-Floridian residents across the world have been able to work with people of this calibre without moving there and paying $40,000+ a year to go to art college. The course isn't cheap, but it's a lot cheaper than the other option! There's only limited places so it's going to be a fight to get a place!
Obviously there's no guarantee or even great chance that at the end of the year you'll come out with a job at Pixar or Disney (it's run by employees of those companies, not the companies themselves), but with the grounding and of course contacts with those places it certainly gives you a good head-start. I'm really looking forward to it, and just hope I get one of those places.
I should get around to doing tizz66.com which I intended to be a portfolio/test lab site to show the stuff I'm playing. Maybe I'll do that next week. I can upload Dave the penguin in the meantime if anyone didn't get the chance to see it.
Even looking back at that (done about 8 months ago), from what I've learnt just by reading about the theory of movement, it's a pretty poor effort! At the time though, I was chuffed with myself and I suppose it's still quite humourous. Hopefully some better stuff will appear from me soon
Ever since I first saw Wallace & Gromit in the early 90's, I've loved animation. I remember buying a plasticine pack and making my own versions. Unfortunately our video camera wasn't capable of single-frame recording (this was before the digital age) so I wasn't able to make any real animation. Up until my early teens, Nick Park was my idol.
Skip forward a few years and Pixar shows up with Toy Story. That reignited my want to do animation, though now it was obviously in a computer. At that time I'm not sure I even owned a computer, or if I did I was just a casual user. It's only as the years went on that I turned into the semi-geek I am now. A few years back I got into 3D modeling though it was never really more than playing around or doing a module for my degree (most probably remember Dave the penguin, voiced by John
).The past couple of months I've been experimenting with it more and more and I've ultimately decided that my wish is to do that as my occupation. My ambition is to work at Pixar, though I share that with just about everyone else into Animation. They really are the pinnicle of the industry.
So how am I going to get on the ladder? Well, an online animation diploma is starting in January, and it's run by guys working for, amongst others, Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks and ILM. It's a year-long animation course split into 4 units of 3 months each. Enrolment is imminent, and I'm going to be applying. Demand is going to be huge - this is the first time that non-California and non-Floridian residents across the world have been able to work with people of this calibre without moving there and paying $40,000+ a year to go to art college. The course isn't cheap, but it's a lot cheaper than the other option! There's only limited places so it's going to be a fight to get a place!
Obviously there's no guarantee or even great chance that at the end of the year you'll come out with a job at Pixar or Disney (it's run by employees of those companies, not the companies themselves), but with the grounding and of course contacts with those places it certainly gives you a good head-start. I'm really looking forward to it, and just hope I get one of those places.
I should get around to doing tizz66.com which I intended to be a portfolio/test lab site to show the stuff I'm playing. Maybe I'll do that next week. I can upload Dave the penguin in the meantime if anyone didn't get the chance to see it.
Even looking back at that (done about 8 months ago), from what I've learnt just by reading about the theory of movement, it's a pretty poor effort! At the time though, I was chuffed with myself and I suppose it's still quite humourous. Hopefully some better stuff will appear from me soon
Better term to use is claymation! ;D