animation in hard times
Posted by dermot on January 23, 2009 at 1:18 pmIn addition to this site, I also manage a blog dedicated to tracking the ongoing financial/ecological crisis. I don’t want to allow too much of that content to bleed over into angryanimator, but it’s relevant to this post - which will contain some suggestions on how to ride out a downturn. Now that even the [...]
scissors-woman vs. the teacher
Posted by dermot on December 11, 2008 at 1:58 pmThis was originally written in a discussion thread requesting memories about the best teachers from our childhood. The short essay grew a bit, and although it’s slightly off-topic, it is relevant to the animation industry in general…
First, the worst teacher I ever had - for TWO long and awful years. Libel laws prevent her [...]
feudal lord seeks animators
Posted by dermot on December 9, 2008 at 9:45 pmAnimators/Artists/Designers will appreciate this risible (but all too REAL) job posting (UNPAID). This was found by members of the coldhardflash forum.
By this Friday afternoon (5/30), we need the following:
1. We start from a shot of a character’s hand with a blue-footed booby on it (we will provide the initial hand shot), and the camera pulls [...]