Learn About Me Monday – How Did You Learn to Draw?
So how did I learn to tame the pencil? Well, I think it comes naturally to me. See, my Mother is an artist and my Father is woodworker/craftsman so to work with my hands and esthetics feels very normal to me. While I always knew I could draw, it wasn’t until I was a young teen that I started to take an interest in it as a career. My high school teacher took my under his wing to teach me properly so I could make it in to what ever art school I chose. I decided to venture in to the world of animation. After high school I went to college and spend two fantastic years learning and training to be a classical animator. What that means is that I’ve been trained in traditional hand drawn animation rather than flash or computer. My life took me in to the world of video games rather than feature films though. A choice I don’t regret. I’ve worked in games for well over a decade now and still love it. I do wonder what my life might be like if I followed the other path in to film. Animation is something that I truly love and with the rise of amazing animated films… my heart does burn for the other side of things.
Oh well… maybe in the next life. Until then, I’ll have a blast doing what I do. ^_^
Play Asia
March 10th, 2015 at 2:52 pm
Good bio, Joe. I hope you find your way into animated features.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:37 am
Really like hearing about teachers who help students further their abilities and interests. Guess we should all be (indirectly) thankful for him too.
Don’t have a clue how job-hunting in your field works, but it seems like your current work should lend itself to expanding into animation. Is making art for animated films all that different from making art for games? I would think that your training in classical animation combined with experience working in games would make you an attractive candidate for a studio. But, as a totally ignorant outsider, I’ve no clue what studios like that are actually looking for.
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