>>15831703
I start 3 years of illustration in university in september. I'm working on a comic portfolio in the summer, to send to 2000ADs head office and hopefully comission some work in between my current course and university.

On a 2D animation degree here; The one thing our professor makes sure to remind us of is that Adobe can and will fuck everything up with each new version of Flash.

I've worked on some commercials and web stuff, but at this point I'm really just a drone trying to hone his craft.

Done some advertising work and such; published a comic with a small company; but I haven't gone to any professional schools.

I want to get a new comic out. Life has just gotten in the way a few times.

I'm working on a cartoon for my high school senior project. Goin' to Maine College of Art for a year and then, if I'm lucky, I want to transfer to the 2D program at SVA.

I'm looking in to it. Hoping to go to Expression Art next year.

I graduated from the Joe Kubert School a couple years ago.

Currently doing jack squat art-wise for reasons including laziness and complete incompetence at all stages of art beyond pencils outside of ridiculously expensive graphics programs.

Architecture, 2d and 3d animation combo here. This better get me to damn somewhere.

In 3rd year university for game design, really digging 3D animation. Wanted to be a traditional animator as a kid but guidance counselor from highschool told me I'd never amount to anything and animation was for people with talent.

Yet here I am, getting the top marks in my class for the walk cycle I just did, already ahead of the class in facial animation and lip syncing.

Revenge is a fucking great motivator.

Coelasquid works on Ugly Americans, actually.

>>15832071
Oh, shit, seriously?

Yeah, I've mentioned my artistic leanings a few times before on here.

I've taken a fine arts course (A crummy fine arts course), an Art Fundamentals course at Sheridan college and am currently taking a graphic Design course at Mohawk College (Because those last two courses had no employment prospects)

>>15832071

Wow, really? Good for him.

No, I wanna be a dentist.

>>15832093
>>15832132
Yup. Coel's a "she", though.

>>15832171
...
Would your name happen to be Hermie?

>>15832204
That's not even remotely close

>>15832171
You fucking little misfit.

>>15832064
you're awesome sir

I want to major in Illustration and draw for children's books and advertisements.
I wouldn't mind being a storyboard artist though.

>>15832100
SHEEEEEEEEEERIDAAAAAN YOU SAY
Would this be the one in Ontario?

Also, OP here. Forgot to mention; feel free to link to or post examples of your work, if you can.

>>15832064
I request you draw yourself as an art-themed super villain with your councilor as your arch nemesis.

>>15832230
Misfit? What? Dentistry is a deviant career now?

>>15832171
Do you get off on the pain you inflict?

>>15832171
YOU GOTTA BUILD TOYS

>>15832297
>>15832278
>>15832230
Oh god I just got it

does anyone here go to SCAD?

>>15832204
YOU WERE REFERENCING IT TOO.

In my defense, I love that movie but haven't seen it in probably a decade or so.

>>15832290
When I was younger, just a bad little kid,
My mama noticed funny things I did,
Like shootin' puppies with a B B gun
I'd poison guppies, and when I was done
I'd find a pussycat and bash in its head
That's when my mama said

What did she say?

She said, "My boy, I think someday
You'll find a way
To make your natural tendencies pay
You'll be a dentist
You have a talent for causin' things pain
Son, be a dentist
People will pay you to be inhumane
Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood
And teaching would suit you still less
Son, be a dentist
You'll be a success

>>15831979
Ummm...here's my DA:
http://timothymcsweeny.deviantart.com/

I keep meaning to join the /co/ group on there, just too lazy.

>>15832190

You know, I was about to ask that, then I figured "Nah, that'll just make me sound like a clueless moron, and besides; there are no girls on the internet"

>>15832268

Mmmmmyes, yes it would.

DA here: http://cousinted.deviantart.com/

>>15831849 here
Since people are apparently posting examples...

Trying to de-animu my artwork.

I used to do layouts and character/prop design for a cartoon on APTN, I did inbetweens and lip sync on the first seven episodes of Ugly Americans and they called me up to talk about doing character design stuff for the next seven.

>>15832100
Oh hey, I went to Sheridan.

First year of the animation program is pretty good, second year is amazing, third year has the best chance of making you a suicidal alcoholic, and fourth year you just coast on whatever ambition you have left after you scrape away all the apathy that crusted on. The admins in the school are complete cockmonglers, dealing with them has been the most frustrating experience of my adult life thus far.

Still one of the best in Canada, which is a little disheartening.

Here's an ollldddd piece of shit I drew. Not the whole thing, but all I have right now.

>>15832735
This is cute

>>15832452
Did...did you draw me with wonky hair?

>>15832268
Alright, then. I'm >>15831989 and my dA is:

http://madlunarknight.deviantart.com/

I'd like to get in to animation eventually.

I want to go to SCAD after I graduate next year, but I might go to UNC-Greensboro for a year and transfer.

I am also trying to de-animu my work. I love the whole idea of each comic page being like an actual artwork (sort of like that Batman Arkham comic whose exact title I don't remember) so I am trying to uhh get on that.

>>15832268
Did you go to/have your sights on Sheridan?

>>15832827
Yes.

Yes I did.

But even though I wanna be a dentist, I still like art. I've always wanted to make a webcomic...something made for the sake of telling a story and getting to draw rather than telling a joke a day to get fans to sell merchandise. But college for a medical career makes me have no time for that, so I'll wait until I'm a dentist and only have to work 4 days a week and still make twice as much as the rest of the people in this thread.

Graduating soon, been doing illustration, really wanted to do 2d animation/storyboarding for a long time, probably getting a job in the game industry instead

>>15832904
But...I don't even know you. D:

>>15832894
Oh god, PLEASE don't go to SCAD. The school is terrible, just wants your money, has awful food and housing, you'll be in major debt by the time you finish, and you WILL NOT find a job. Go to RISD, VCU, or CALARTS

I'm aspiring to be a storyboard artist, but before I do that, I need to buckle down and improve my art and take classes on cinematography and the like. If all else fails, I'll attempt voice acting and probably fail.

I'm not studying animation in the least, but I'd like to own my own animation studio someday.

I'm a Jew, so I hope all you pencil monkeys know how to use Flash!

>>15832913
wow, you're pretty good!

>>15832869
You should. I really like your character designs.

>>15833019
>but I'd like to own my own animation studio someday
lol, good luck

>>15832735

Yeah, that's what I've heard. Half my friends nearly killed themselves just trying to get into the animation program (And only one of them actually made it). I'd originally wanted to get into Animation before I realized there was no way I could afford the tuition, supplies and everything else.

>>15831849
Holy fuck Flash CS4 is cocked up. I can't believe they can sell it as broken as it is. the onion-skinning barely functions, I have no idea what they did to the program. Flash 7 is a better piece of software even with the amount it crashes.

>>15833015
Yeaaaa voice acting!

>>15832767
here. I know I did this early last year... But I'll be going to community college next year to work on my skills..so any crit would be nice.

>>15832986
My parents won't let me go to CalArts because they said if I had an EMERGENCY I'd be fucked and they wouldn't be able to get over there since we're east coast. I was looking at though, as well as SVA. But it's sort of a stretch too.

MICA seems nice too, what do you think of that one?

>>15832869

I don;t think you'll have any trouble.

>>15833095
MICA is good too. What do you plan to major in?

>>15833060

Pfft, how hard could it be? It would pretty much be a standard office, and there wouldn't be a whole lot of expense put into actually starting such a business.

>>15833030
Thanks..I'm pretty proud considering I don't go to school for art, but I could be way better so I keep practicing.

Animation major, AKA, I HAVE MADE BAD CHOICES IN MY LIFE.

"Sequential art" which is just a fancy name for "lol comics" with a minor in English. Though I might just go for illustration, since it seems to be broader.

One reason SVA seemed nice was the fact that in the courses that pertained to comic books you could take some stuff with writing, which is something else I'm really into.

>>15833218
Yeah, you could really push yourself to be fantastic. But for a self-taught artist, you have a raw talent

To be honest /co/ I am aspiring in animation. It's my passion, since I know it's almost slim to never that i will be discovered acting. I want to help design characters and story boards.
And I'm working hard each and every day getting together my portfolio and everything.

>>15833068
Supplies aren't actually that bad. You don't need to buy much beyond animation paper and pencils. Gouache and Illustration board in first year, but second year onwards you do digital painting, and I did life drawings digitally for the second two years so I saved a mint on newsprint and conté.

>>15832268
Really? I heard the art programs there were pretty good, brraaah.

I still have to figure out what one I'm cough to go to/ what sort of art I'm doing, I have a couple years to decide yet COUGHUNDERAGEB&COUGH

I guess I'll share some sketches too, I was going to leave out some of the sparkling animu bullshit but if I erased the faggotry half of it would probably be gone. There isn't really any hiding that I have a vagina.

LOOK UPON ME AND SHUDDER
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6049/ooold.png
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/406/whores.png

>>15833103
>>15833050
Thanks. It's a shame I have so little initiative. But I decided I will go to school, recently.

I draw and mold alot
I'm going to take an art class at a commity college as soon as I can

>>15833072
The new interface is a piece of shit, specially the properties panel. It was easier having them on the bottom but now you're forced to have them on the right panel. Also you can't even put them back in the bottom since the panel is fucking huge now and has a scrollbar so you can't see shit when you move it there.

Some stuff. I've got a referral lined up from Blizzard, dunno if that's gonna pan through, but for not graduating yet it feels pretty good.

>>15833340
if you made that, please fuckin' marry me.

I hope to work on cartoons in the future.

I got my portfolio reviewed by a Disney animator last friday and I still haven't regained my will to draw.

>>15833422
what happened?
>>15833380
omg, good luck!

Graduating from an animation degree this year. Working towards starting an independent studio with a few friends. We basically want to be Bill Plympton.

>>15833422
Damn, I can just imagine...

>>15833409
Can't do it bro, underageb&.
I'm sure you'll be scared away by my extreme faggoty sketches, anyway.

I even tried working in flash. I have soooo much respect for animators who use it to make all the things we love.

image related. It's what I made. >cringe<

>>15833422
SHARE WITH US SO WE MAY LEARN

to animators: if you haven't yet, go read the thread in /co/ archive. There was an Q and A from an animation veteran in canada.

>>15833154
People who don't understand the animation pipeline generally have unrealistic expectations for how to run a production, and often run their projects into the ground or build up a bad reputation.

>>15833476
how old are you?

>>15833498
Mandingo? I thought you were only on /tg/.

lol, where's GUY?

>>15833554
Eh, I'm a drifter. and I love Cartoons. Not so much comics, though I'm trying to get into them.

>>15833340
Wow.

If you're underaged and haven't had any real instruction, you have a lot of raw talent.

16. Hopefully I can haul my butt to California if I decide to animate after I graduate, Canada is looking grim.

>>15833635
>implying canada was ever good

>>15833635
LOL DIS WUZ SUPPOSED TO GO WITH DEEZ

>>15833533
>>15833634

>>15833340

Sweet. Ever tried /ic/?

>>15833446
The guy was frowning at my stuff the whole time. I got a feeling that he felt I was wasting his time since I was a HS student and the portfolio review was an assignment. Also talked to some other guy to sign my review sheet and he rated me 3/10.

Then it turns out that my other friends in class talked to the Deadpool artist and he actually sat down and talked to them about their weaknesses and shit while my guys just waved me off like I wasn't worth their time. I just feel gypped about choosing the wrong reviewers. I waited in line for the Disney guy with my friends and they gave us 3 minutes tops.

>>15833635
I'm 17
;D

Next year will be the 10th year I've spent at art college and I still haven't made an industry quality portfolio or made any connections.

Working as a janitor for my old elementary school 7 days a week in the meantime.

My old kindergarten teacher laughs every time she sees me, like somehow she knew this would happen.

>>15833635
Nigga people like you make me feel bad.
<spoiler>Even though I am only 17.</spoiler>

>>15833320

That's a really good idea, actually...

Still couldn't afford the killer tuition though. I'm still a little worried I missed an opportunity by not going for animation...

Illustration Sophomore here. Looking to get into some concept art stuff, comics stuff, etc.
<< one of my assignments from about a month ago.

>>15833714
Aw man. What a terrible thing for a teacher to do. But I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.

>>15833672
>Disney
there is your problem. most folks over there are stuck up assholes. considering you got a 3/10 you got of easy...

I have met a woman who used to animate for disney way back in the day and did stuff for marvel. My mom is a secretary for a lawyer so I talked to her for a bit and showed her my work. She said I was pretty good and gave me this advice: never let people tell you how to draw and always do what YOU want to do.

>>15833514
I dunno how to link things from 4chanarchive, but the thread is on page three with the picture of Squidward on it.

>>15833360
http://megaswf.com/view/ba84e885b009c7e42efdbbb3a3f26106.html
Something I've been dicking around with in CS4, it really shouldn't be taking me as long as it is, but I keep shelfing it because I don't feel like fighting CS4 to scratch out a couple frames. Sometimes I start drawing and realize that the program has decided to apply the eraser tool to every layer I have onion-skinned, so I have chunks missing from frames left and right, other times it will keep one frame frozen on top of what I'm trying to work on that won't go away until I quit and restart the program. Other times it decides that if I want to have the bottom layer or two locked (usually the one I keep the roughs that I don't want altered on) it just won't let me onion skin anything at all.

It can't even just be my version of the program, because my roommates have the same legit bought-and-paid-for copies of flash for both Mac and Windows, and they have the same problems.

>>15833685
I don't know who you are ;D

>>15833670
I lurk it, but am afraid of my confidence being violently raped. NO PAIN NO GAIN~

I wish I had more to share, but everything on this computer are really gay ass pictures of Tim Drake from 3 months ago.

You know what is scary guys? I know people who suck and go into art, like this one girl from my school, and they lack skill and probably won't make it out of school.

My biggest fear is realizing I am not good enough too late.

>>15833672
That reviewer sounds like a piece of shit and should be punched in the teeth!

>>15833828
Sean Connery as Gannondorf

>>15833785
>there is your problem. most folks over there are stuck up assholes. considering you got a 3/10 you got of easy...

Actually they were pretty nice, their advice to me, work on anatomy and life drawing was pretty spot on.

Steven Stills(Kim Possible and Danny Phantom designer) gave me a 3 not the Disney dudes, they didn't have enough time to grade so I picked Steven randomly in the Artist corner.

I'm kind of pissed that I could have just followed my friends to see the Deadpool guy instead of waiting in line because he drew them pictures and shit.

>>15833878
I keep myself awake at night thinking about that.

>>15833878
you can make it if you're willing to work extremely hard to get better

>>15833722
Don't worry, people like me make me feel bad. Every time I see someone my age same/higher skill level I curl up into a ball and cry.

>>15833672
BITCH ASS PUNKS
Disney isn't worth shit now, anyway.
This is the only time the word 'pretentious' will ever be applicable on /co/.

Out of curiosity, can I see some of you work?

>>15833714
That sounds like a good short comic in itself. ~DEEP

I aspire to be an animator and make my own cartoon. If not that, animate for a 3-D powerhouse like Pixar or for a games company.
I currently have only 2 connections, the guy who runs Ebolaworld and an aspiring programmer.

A sample of my work can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZAh-qdBlEw

>>15833878
Succeeding in the art world is sooooo much more about who you know, how personable you are, and how well you adhere to deadlines than it is about how talented you actually are.

>My biggest fear is realizing I am not good enough too late.

I sort of feel like that right now, I'll just see what animation is like my first year of college and then switch majors if the first semester doesn't go well.

>>15833878

I don't think you should be discouraged. If art is what you wanna do, then the time limit isn't going to be as important. Getting a job in what you want to do directly out of college is pretty rare, most people just get a smaller job with their degree and work their way up, building a better and better portfolio as they go.

>>15833954
I thought Steven Stills was a chill dude, guess he's a stuck up faget too.

underage artists: YES it sucks seeing someone better than you and giving up hope. It happens to me all the time and it feels awful. But be confident, work hard, TAKE CRITICISM, take classes, go to community college for two years before entering art school...you can do it and be great if you are willing to put in the time and effort.

now stop frowning AND GO MAKE SOME ART.

>>15833340
YOU
>Every time I see someone my age same/higher skill level I curl up into a ball and cry.
THIS.

Stop making me feel bad about my shitty abilites, /co/

Art degree... did nothing with it. While doing my 9-to-5 I'm writing a lot and one of those things is a comic which I'm also illustrating.

>>15832894
Holy crap, are you me from the past? I'm a UNCG student who transferred to SCAD. Crazy shit. If you don't mind crazy people who are really fun, you should try living in Mary Foust Hall. It was the best experience of my life so far.

I'm a SCAD student, sequential major graduating this May. So far, I'm fucked for jobs, but I do have a portfolio review with Scholastic this Friday and later in May, I have one with Oni Press. So that's pretty nice. We'll see how that goes.

>>15833986
worse than Delgo

Junior Illustration/Animation major here. Not sure what I wanna do exactly when I graduate, but definitely something more along the lines of illustration. Children's books, greeting cards...

Example of my animation (never taken a class)
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8299/stitch.gif

>>15833969
I don't have any of my work scanned in at the moment, the review hurt because deep down I know they are right.

>>15833878
THis girl graduated from my school last year.
I honestly don't see her going anywhere.
And people compare me to her.
That's bad news guys!! Given I think it may just be because people see anime as cartoons, but who knows I probably just blow.

http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectionid=31306&

>>15833672
Disney has been known to have bitter underling animators at review stations like that cut down talented people because they don't want the competition. Glen Keane and some other top-tier guys kinda trolled them once to prove the system was broken by putting together a portfolio together, submitting it, and having a laugh after it failed the review process.

Aren't they the same age?

>he's a stuck up faget too.

NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

He WAS pretty cool. I;m just a bit butthurt. He's a real nice guy.

>>15834118
Oh god, that's fucking horrible

>>15834071
Did you live in Greensboro before UNCG?
If so, possibly. And if you did, what high school did you go to?

>>15834118
not only is it anime, but it's fucking awful...

>>15834124

How did Glen Keane manage to come from the same family that created The Family Circus? Seriously, that's like a flower growing in toxic waste.

>>15833878

You've managed to sum up all of my fears from the past five years into a single post...well, except the raw meat and vomiting phobias...

I want to get a comic series published, but as a side project. I've been following John K's blog and the Preston Blair book since 2006, and have made a shitload of progress. No, I don't want to make a cartoon exactly like what John K does, I just follow his tips on solid drawing.

If some shit about a cat named Bonzo ever hits the stands, yeah, that's me.

>>15834168
Naw, I lived near Charlotte.

>>15834118

Jesus Christ, the fuck is up with those hands...

Well it was nice to get that portfolio stuff off my chest, I haven't told most of my friends what I got rated. Yay catharsis.

>>15834218
>John K.

>>15834161
Her concentration was to turn famous art pieces into ANIME.

And people lol'd at the portfolio showing when that one came up.

>>15834236
She learned from the official Touhou art?

>>15834218
He really has some solid advice despite what /co/ says, his stuff about construction, composition and color for example are really great.

>>15834263
No wonder, this shit is hilarious

>>15834263
While that is an interesting premise, it's executed horribly.

>>15834263

See, that could be an interesting idea...In more competent hands

Emphasis on the hands.

Aspiring and aiming high as a motherfucker.

>>15834118
CHRIST.

>>15832897
I don't go to it (as forementioned, underage) and I don't know. I just moved from Nova Scotia to Ontario recently, it pretty much seems like that or OCAD.

- OCAD looks kind of gritty, but in between like, my favourite districts in town. It would be awesome to live there.

>>15834232
Aw. I've lived in Greensboro my whole life, so I've almost been avoiding UNCG just because I want to start over pretty badly. Apparently it's so big nobody knows you anyway.

>>15834322
one of my favorite artists goes to OCAD

I'm finishing an animation degree this year and looking into working independently with a couple of other animators. It's easy to get your stuff seen through the internet and festivals so if you've got good ideas you can get popular pretty easy. The trick is finding some way to make money out of it. It might not work out but we figure it's better to try than just run straight to a big company.

this is some stuff from the film I'm working on at the moment

>>15834377
you'll go far

>>15834322
OCAD's in a cool neighbourhood, but they don't have much in the ways of animation training if that's what you have your sights set on.

yes!

artofguy.deviantart.com
artofguy.blogspot.com

I shall be The Legend!

/co/ if I do somehow manage to make it as an animator, I can't wait to be working with y'all someday.