m_) are you still considering what you told us on the shoutertry?..

now or never dude...and it would be a PAIN to not have you...

you better..

I wish i could say that i learned all my skills from one amazing school, but as you will probably find is the case with most artists, one stop education is a rare success. My education is a long story(prepare yourself, hopefully you may benifit from my experience) that begins with my telling you that my dad, who is now a web/graphic designer, allways wanted to be an animator. He had tons of books on animation, drawing, and design, not to mention all the art supplies i could get my hands on. Alot of what i know started with watching him and absorbing books like "how to draw the marvel way" and "learn to draw animated cartoons" by Walter Foster. When i was ready for high school i knew i wanted to be an animator so i joined the theatre program and learned as much as i could about the stage and lighting and acting and screen writing. My last year of Highschool allowed me to take post scenondary classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I took 2 foundation classes in life drawing and quickly learned that solid drawing skills are key to any arts decipline. After graduation from High school i wanted to continue at the arts college but couldn't afford it. I took all the foundation classes( literature, science , math etc.) and studio arts(printmaking,sculpture,painting,photography,etc.) classes(even voulenteered with the annual theatre production to learn costume making) i possibly could at the local community college(normandale) in hopes that i could transfer back to the arts college and get my bachelors degree, sadly, after 3 years they had changed policies and less than half of my credits would transfer and could not afford to take them over and decided to study abroad in Japan for a year, learning pottery and soaking up culture. When i came back i felt lost  and decided to take a few years off to take care of my family and work. Then, after 2 years i was bitten by the animation bug again and did some searching for schools. I really wanted to go to the art academy of san francisco, but again, too expensive and extremely competitive. So i kept searching till i found Van Arts in BC Canada. they offered a 12 week intro class to 2D animation, i figured i t would be the best way to see if this is what i really wanted to do, and it was. I really liked it and did well at it, so another year later i signed up for the 3D character animation program, because i figured it was where all the jobs were at, and it was more like stop motion because of the use of CG"puppets". It was a very small program, 12 in my class, and only the 3rd year they held the program so the cirriculum had room for alot of improvement.  All in all i learned the most form my classmates, bouncing ideas off one another, working through the same problems. We had one instructor there, Charles Phillips, that was amazing, he made sure that we weren't just learning the mechanics of animation, but what animation is, and what it can do, that made all the difference. We also had the privelage of working with 2 animators at Pixar that critiqued our work which was freeking awesome. I also had a stop mo class with Ken Priebie, who wrote a how to stop mo animation book recently, that was interesting, however not very informative. Although i was learning animation in CG, animation is animation, no matter what medium. At vanarts i learned the principals of good animation, which have been convienently published in the animators bible, AKA, "the illusion of life" by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson. It is a Disney book, and you may be one of those "ugh, Disney" types, but the principles are there, and he devloped them. Timeing, posing, follow through, overlapping action, and solid drawing among others. That's what you need from an education, you can learn it at most schools with an animation program. My reconmendation is learn all you can from books, and enroll in some kind of 4 year art degree, (Ringling College in Florida, and Sheridan in Canada have great 4 year animation programs that are reasonably affordable). Um, that may not have been the response you were looking for, but hope it helped.

-Season

Great character design, clean solid shapes = clear solid animation. Good work!

 Thanks a bunch for the buddie request Travis! I'm sorry for getting back to you so late. You work looks great though man, Keep it up! You will get a project done.

warcraft

m_) I will be trying very hard, thanks for the support lol

m_) Can you buy on-line the lobby hobby eyes? I'd like to know, thanks.