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Max Butcher wrote:

I can't draw, so animation is out. I would love to get into 3D animation and take stop motion further - but you NEED to draw if you want to take degrees in animation. I can still write animation though...

I am teaching myself on how to draw for this very reason. I have a number of interests, but they all lead me to different schools (Which drive my parents berserk).

I took on art for that purpose, but I can't do hand drawn animation, but I do cartoony sketches that have nearly the same feel as cartoon characters.

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Basically, I went to university, but I did my own self study and watched tutorials etc for years and did freelance work from home for free.... also I did an FXPHD online course as it had good material for my reel. Basically, teach yourself, a degree looks good, but an amazing showreel looks better.

Most people start as a runner, but if you work hard you can skip that stage, and you wont have to make everyone tea and be their slave.

I applied, they gave me the job within 2 hours as a paint and roto artist.

I'm applying to work on the new star wars film this year too, fingers crossed.

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Rsteenoven wrote:

Basically, I went to university, but I did my own self study and watched tutorials etc for years and did freelance work from home for free.... also I did an FXPHD online course as it had good material for my reel. Basically, teach yourself, a degree looks good, but an amazing showreel looks better.

Most people start as a runner, but if you work hard you can skip that stage, and you wont have to make everyone tea and be their slave.

I applied, they gave me the job within 2 hours as a paint and roto artist.

I'm applying to work on the new star wars film this year too, fingers crossed.

What was your degree in? I'm looking to get into the same kind of field as you.

Right now I spend 2 or so hours a day messing around and creating animations and more and more matte paintings in After Effects.

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Animation degree, but it has nothing to do with VFX really, so do a VFX course. In the UK, go for bournemouth uni or hertfordshire.

To get started in my industry, you need to be amazing, and quick, at rotoscoping and paint work. (wire removal etc) That is how I skipped being a runner, I could already do what the current paint and roto artists did, because i taught my self.

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Either script writing of animating. I couldn't be a director.

I don't want to take the credit for everything that I didn't do. Directors are known to do that.

And I'd only be an animator for a smaller company where animators have to do everything. The big companies split their animators between several tasks, so that each one is specialised in doing one thing. That would get quite boring and repetitive IMO.

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I'm planning in becoming a Director, still don't know how, and, well, that's why I'm here. I'm brickfilming primarily to have a  physical look to the processes that take in filmmaking. E.G., I did all of the jobs (Director, CG Animator, Voice Actor, Script Writer, Music Composer) in the production of the last film I've done, Truth. And I must say, that It's pretty hard work! Either ways, my idea of being a Director comes from the fact that if I get a good story idea I want other people to see it exactly as I have it in mind (I usually already imagine the scene layouts and everything), so I'd prefer a job where I can coordinate others doing things how pretty much I want to, still being able to contest my opinions, but changing something only If I like that.

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I love animation and I did a few hand-drawn cartoons to se if I could.  Then I tried brickfilming to see if I could, and becaue I love Lego.  I'll leave you to judge whether or not I can do it.  But one thing I can not do is be any kind of artist for someone else, though I sometimes freelance when requested.  I just do not enjoy it the way I do when for my own art.  It feels like work, drudgery, when I do.

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I wouldn't mind a job in animation, or maybe one in the Anime and Manga industry! For the past few weeks, my interest in this form of art has grown, and I have begun to start doing little Manga Chibi shorts, and soon I plan on doing a few Chibi Anime tests. The only thing I need to do, is switch from traditional drawing, to digital drawing.

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Advice for getting into the non-stop-motion animation business: steer clear of anime and manga. I haven't met a single person in the industry who doesn't regard the genre with some form of contempt due to there being so little variety. To quote a character design tutor I once had: "you can't tell one artist's work from the next". Sure, there are certain stylistic differences (Attack on Titan's shiny people with bold outlines, for example), but it doesn't come close to the diversity seen in "western" animation.

Take some classes or read some books on character design, and if you still want to you can come back to anime later when you know more. I just strongly warn you against pigeonholing yourself into such a restrictive genre before learning what you can about everything else.

Plus, there really aren't many openings for gaijins in the Japanese entertainment industry. mini/confused

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Hazzat, maybe sluripng is the one who will BRING variety to it!

Also, I see no need to HAVE TO cross over.  Nothing wrong with CGI, but nothing wrong with traditional animation either.

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Wow, I didn't realize how old this thread is. The only job I would want in the film industry would be as a stop-motion animator. I enjoy film in general, but there are other  things I would rather pursue as a career. However if through some series of events led to me being offered a job in the stop-motion industry (which is very small, so I doubt this would happen) I would quickly toss away my college education in chemistry and take it.

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backyardlegos wrote:

Wow, I didn't realize how old this thread is. The only job I would want in the film industry would be as a stop-motion animator. I enjoy film in general, but there are other  things I would rather pursue as a career. However if through some series of events led to me being offered a job in the stop-motion industry (which is very small, so I doubt this would happen) I would quickly toss away my college education in chemistry and take it.

You never know, Aardman Animations and Dreamworks might get together for another Wallace and Gromit film or two someday mini/wink Dreamworks has done a lot of stop-motion films, but that was in the 90's more so, with Wallace and Gromit and The Chicken Run.

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