hello door, here's my foot.
(3 Month Summary: I moped around looking for a job. I turned 26 and then moped about it. I fell down a mountain, but remained intact. I'm starting to recognize when others reach out to me, so I've made some nice friends. I'm trying to stop smoking.)
For those of you outside of the bug loop, I, yes I, I have a full-time animation job. I started on Monday. I haven't been bragging yet because they hired me on Friday and it all happened so fast that all I could do this last weekend was sit around and panic. But now that it's been three days, I feel less anxious about it, and am now trying to adjust my internal clock which, for the last 3 years, has been set to wake up at 11:00 pm. And not 7:30 am. Sleepiness aside, I am a junior animator on Code Monkeys. There's no hand drawn animation to be had here, but there's experience! I work happily on lip-syncing, the 3 second animations in between scenes (if you've seen the show), and some of the pixel art. (That's right, I'm getting paid for pixel art!) It's only a 3 month gig, but I'm trying to work super hard so they'll ask me back should they need me later.
For those of you with G4, the 2nd season premieres this Sunday, but you won't see anything I've worked on until the 5th episode. So wait 5 weeks.
I actually interviewed with these guys several months ago, but the job was different and required more experience. So persistence pays! (Salary even!) Also, the timing was amazing, because the day I saw this ad, was the day I was going to sign up to be a temp. (Out of frustration of not being able to find any other kind of job in this smelly city, of course) But instead I spent all day applying!
Previously, I was re-working an older storyboard to get into this DreamWorks training program. It starts, coincidentally, the week after this job stops. It would be amazing if I got in, and would do wonders for my resume, not to mention I would learn exactly what I need to know. And could even possibly get picked up by a mentor, also ideal. So please think well for me. (I'm still trying to figure out how to format the board so that it will be easily viewable online without having to be 24 pages...but my layout is so gorgeous, I don't want to touch it.)
For those of you outside of the bug loop, I, yes I, I have a full-time animation job. I started on Monday. I haven't been bragging yet because they hired me on Friday and it all happened so fast that all I could do this last weekend was sit around and panic. But now that it's been three days, I feel less anxious about it, and am now trying to adjust my internal clock which, for the last 3 years, has been set to wake up at 11:00 pm. And not 7:30 am. Sleepiness aside, I am a junior animator on Code Monkeys. There's no hand drawn animation to be had here, but there's experience! I work happily on lip-syncing, the 3 second animations in between scenes (if you've seen the show), and some of the pixel art. (That's right, I'm getting paid for pixel art!) It's only a 3 month gig, but I'm trying to work super hard so they'll ask me back should they need me later.
For those of you with G4, the 2nd season premieres this Sunday, but you won't see anything I've worked on until the 5th episode. So wait 5 weeks.
I actually interviewed with these guys several months ago, but the job was different and required more experience. So persistence pays! (Salary even!) Also, the timing was amazing, because the day I saw this ad, was the day I was going to sign up to be a temp. (Out of frustration of not being able to find any other kind of job in this smelly city, of course) But instead I spent all day applying!
Previously, I was re-working an older storyboard to get into this DreamWorks training program. It starts, coincidentally, the week after this job stops. It would be amazing if I got in, and would do wonders for my resume, not to mention I would learn exactly what I need to know. And could even possibly get picked up by a mentor, also ideal. So please think well for me. (I'm still trying to figure out how to format the board so that it will be easily viewable online without having to be 24 pages...but my layout is so gorgeous, I don't want to touch it.)