KNAPP The Post-War collection A/W 2012/2013
Reposting so I can find this later because of awesome.
(via nanalew)
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.
Cool.
Solid advice for any artist. :D
Film by Jordan Cullen & Rayanne Sufian ” The journey is over bahahah”
So awesome! I have some talented friends :D
A caricature of Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time.
By me.
Aaron Vanier.
http://avanierillustration.blogspot.ca/
Why ‘Adventure Time’ Is the Best Sci-Fi Show on TV Right Now
BY ERIC KOHN
MARCH 26, 2013
IndieWire“Sometimes you love a show so much it can do weird things to your head. I’ve gone out on a limb with Cartoon Network’s ‘Adventure Time’ by deeming it a groundbreaking form of cartoon storytelling that fuses several eras of animation into a delightfully surreal and yet oddly familiar experience…. But after last night’s wonderful flashback special episode, “Simon and Marcy,” I’m convinced of one thing: ‘Adventure Time’ is the best science fiction show on television right now.
Definitely my favorite cartoon and probably my favorite show.
Just some photoshop painting practice from photo reference.
Sort of a speed paint? (1.5 hr) Didn’t feel like a speed paint though..
My new “Animal Farm” digital painting for the March/April Issue of ImagineFX Magazine!
Go behind the scenes of this painting with my NEW Digital Painting Workshop! Click here for details.
Outstanding! :D
Congrats to Emma Pearl on Facebook; she wins the drawing for last week’s ValenTEES Day Giveaway!
THIS WEEK!: Heads up, Pen Ward fans, you could win your choice of these two awesome NEW Adventure Time and Bravest Warriors designs, “Bro Hug” and “Hero’s Journey”! Reblog this post and you are entered - it’s that easy! Reblog through the week, we’ll draw the winner next week on 2/13! GOOD LUCK!
I want both of these shirts. So good. :D
Bro Hug is my jam.
