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onlyhalfserious asked:
Being that you're an industry expert, I was hoping if there were any tips or advice you can give to an aspiring Animation Series creator. Any lessons you've learned from working in the industry from so many years. What advice would you give yourself if you were starting out trying to get you're animation picked up by a major network?
ianjq answered:
Yeah I have a big piece of advice! Stop “aspiring”!!!!! Your aspirations end now!!!!
YES YOU! DON’T WAIT! START NOW! (passionate rambling incoming…)
The freaking coolest thing about living in the year 20XX is that you don’t have to have anyone’s permission to be an Animated Series creator. Grab a trial copy of Flash, or make flipbooks, or your own GIFs, or make some stop motion with your phone. Just start making whatever you want! Don’t save your good ideas for some big-wig executives or networks. Just do them right now! Don’t be precious with your ideas, just put them out there.
Content that’s on TV or in movies is not “more official” than stuff you make in your home on your spare time to share with friends on the internet. It’s all the same!!!!! As long as you enjoy it, who cares!! And if other people happen to like it also, then BONUS!!
The experience you get from trying to make something good on your own is so much more important than any future dream of being a big shot. Upload what you do to the internet and get feedback, show it to as many people as you can and listen to critiques. Learn to do stuff all by yourself, and only for your own pleasure.
From what I’ve seen, the people who end up creating a good animated series are the same people who have been creating their own stories, cartoons, comics and music on their own just for fun long before they ever got the shot at the big-time. Read about how your favorite cartoons are made, and try to do the process on your own. You’ll learn what your strengths are and what you’re interested in exploring.
(If you don’t have the facilities to create animation on your own, make something smaller scale- like a script, a comic, or a storyboard!)
OK THEN HERE’S STEP TWO: once you’ve learned to love your work on your own and figured out what you like to draw and what you’re passionate about, you may get a chance to pitch an idea. And thanks to the work you’ve done, you’ll be READY! Instead of some half-finished ideas, you’ll be able to point to all the amazing stuff you’ve created on your own and say “look, I already know what I like, AND I already know how to do it!” —-that’s WAY more impressive than an undeveloped idea with nothing to show for it. PLUS, the bonus of doing good work on your own is that you’ll attract attention and opportunity! I know so many people working in this industry who were discovered from their own silly personal work that was just randomly found online.
GET TO IT! DON’T WAIT FOR ANYONE’S PERMISSION TO BE THE CREATOR YOU WANT TO BE! START NOW! YOU HAVE TO START NOW! DON’T YOU MAKE ME COME OVER THERE AND FORCE YOU TO DO IT! YOUR “ASPIRATION DAYS” ARE OVER!
I had a lot to get off my chest about producing animation on YouTube and why the system now works entirely against animators. If you have 8 minutes, I’d appreciate you hear me out on this one. While I might be fortunate enough to have Grumps to keep me afloat, there’s a lot of other channels that don’t have that same fortune. Give this a share around guys, this is a subject that not many people other than the content creators are aware about.
iartforfun asked:
Hi! I'm Sean Williams and I'm a freshman at Southern Illinois University majoring in Animation (with a planned double major in Illustration) Lately, I've been contacting artists, (animators and storyboarders) that work at Cartoon Network, and I wanted to know if you could give me some tips and feedback that would help me to be able to work there one day.
saraholeksyk answered:
Most advice from working professional artists seems to be pretty straightforward, and you’ll hear a version of it from most people you ask: work hard, draw like your hand’s on fire, study anatomy and draw from real life as well as from your imagination, etc. But as far as helping you tailor your studies to aim for a job at Cartoon Network or another animation studio, well, there’s a lot of factors involved. Skill is one piece of the puzzle; another HUGE piece is luck, and so is community - the people you forge connections with on your way up.
On Regular Show there seems to be two paths our boarders have taken to get the positions they have. Some of us went to art school for animation, did student films, maybe worked on other shows first as a cleanup artist or intern. Then there’s the rest of us who, by and large, taught ourselves to write and draw and keep to a schedule via the medium of comics. It’s still unusual in this industry to “come in through the back door” (so to speak) and get a boarding gig on an Emmy-winning show without previous boarding experience (as I did), but the 15-plus years I spent studying the finer points of comics-making - pacing, composition, gesture and facial expression, rich backgrounds and hidden details, and above all else SOLID WRITING and COMPLEX CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT - got me this job. And plenty of my co-workers who are a decade younger than I am didn’t even have to put in that time in another field - they were already working competently and had the skills and particular sense of humor RS needed when they got hired.
I’ve glanced over a few of the storyboard tests of people who tried out for the job and weren’t hired. There are some PHENOMENAL artists in the bunch. But RS, and Adventure Time, and Steven Universe all require boarders who can also write, to shape the dialogue and enrich the characters, creating emotionally honest moments and ridiculous pratfalls alike. If this is the career you want, don’t just stick with your animation classes - study storytelling, story structure, classic and modern literature. Study joke telling. Read books from authors from other cultures, translated from other languages (or study other languages if you can!) to expose yourself to different narrative styles. Go deep and critical with the works you love: pick them apart, try to dissect why they affect you the way they do. Try writing in a genre you’re not as familiar with. Build worlds.
Finally, be nice to the people you meet in the field. Ask a lot of questions and avoid demanding anything. Build a solid professional reputation, and your chances of having a favor passed back to you will greatly increase. ;)
“Danny Antonucci (the show’s creator) posted this on the EEnE Facebook fanpage in February and I only found out about it last night…
This is some sort of test animation for the episode ‘Truth or Ed’. The drawings are pretty different from the ones in the final product, but IT LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL. Every show should be animated as well as this show… Every episode was like a movie. This one little test has inspired me to work harder on my own animations.
EEnE belongs to Danny Antonucci, AKA Studios, and Cartoon Network.”
W-Wow, this is superb.
Ladies and germs, when an animated show somehow makes deteriorating and disintegrating animation a Visual Effect of Awesome, you know you’ve seen it all.
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If you’re only learning Japanese because of your interest in anime….
Then good for you! I’m happy that something so simple as foreign animation could get you interested in learning a whole other language. Don’t let people make you feel bad just because things Naruto or Sailor Moon got you interested in Japanese. I only ask that you take note that the way they speak in anime isn’t how people speak in real life, and not to ignore learning about Japanese culture as well. Happy studying you guys!
This post is really important! Because this was how i learned english. I saw cartoons and thought “wow these are so cool i wish i’d understand them!” You don’t need a “good” reason to learn a language !
whitenoise-pinknoise asked:
I know it's probably super secret info (that you probably get asked about all the time), but how are things coming along with the Squee short? Do you think it'll be released by the end of this year? :)
jhonenv answered:
Right. I partnered up with Titmouse Animation a while back to do a short animated SQUEE! movie. Since announcing it, we both got caught up on other projects, one of them also with Titmouse.
Right after we announced the SQUEE! thing, I, along with Titmouse, developed a series idea for a company Titmouse was dealing with, lots of writing, character and story stuff. While that was going on, I was, and still am, developing a pitch and now pilot for another animated thing of my own.
It’s a little quieter now, and though the pilot is still going, I have a little breather from being intensely involved until some of the other team do their part, so there’s a bit more movement on SQUEE! again as of maybe two weeks back.
It will be released the day right after you die. HURRY UP!
I’ve never seen this movie before.
The animation is so good.