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Advice for newly graduated animation students I wish I knew:
- Getting a job will take a long time, get strapped in for a slow burn.
-Constantly make new stuff. Short form animatics, not a movie.
-Apply to literally every job, including Production jobs. You learn a lot.
- Getting a job will take a long time, get strapped in for a slow burn.
-Constantly make new stuff. Short form animatics, not a movie.
-Apply to literally every job, including Production jobs. You learn a lot.
- Talk to any professional that will talk to you but donât expect a job offer.
- Just because someone works on a crew doesnât mean they know about the job you just applied for.
-GET A PART TIME JOB ASAP
- Donât be embarrassed you donât have a job yet, it takes time
- Just because someone works on a crew doesnât mean they know about the job you just applied for.
-GET A PART TIME JOB ASAP
- Donât be embarrassed you donât have a job yet, it takes time
- Find a friend in the same boat that you can apply to jobs with and work on animatics with.
- Treat finding a job like a day job, do it daily.
- Feed yourself and get on a good sleep schedule, that shit will catch up to you.
- If you havenât heard back in weeks, move on
- Treat finding a job like a day job, do it daily.
- Feed yourself and get on a good sleep schedule, that shit will catch up to you.
- If you havenât heard back in weeks, move on
- Your 1st gig probably wonât be at a big studio but thatâs fine. Experience leads to other gigs.
- Know your worth, places will try to pay you dirt cheap cause youâre green. You can fight for a better wage.
- Animation Mixers usually are college kids like you so just relax
- Know your worth, places will try to pay you dirt cheap cause youâre green. You can fight for a better wage.
- Animation Mixers usually are college kids like you so just relax
- Move to La. it sucks but yeah thatâs how it be.
- If you move to La, get a part time job immediately.
-otherwise youâll blow thru your savings fast and live off muffins they give out at the hotel you work at.
- If you move to La, get a part time job immediately.
-otherwise youâll blow thru your savings fast and live off muffins they give out at the hotel you work at.
- Check your ego, itâs pointless dude.
- People can be fake as hell, thatâs fine donât take it personally.
-if someone doesnât respond to your text dont resend it, thatâs weird.
- Save money! Omg save money
- Donât let jobs ruin your friendships, pull people up not down
- People can be fake as hell, thatâs fine donât take it personally.
-if someone doesnât respond to your text dont resend it, thatâs weird.
- Save money! Omg save money
- Donât let jobs ruin your friendships, pull people up not down
Oh I forgot a big thing:
-Literally, everyone's story of how they got in is different, it sucks but sometimes it really comes down to right place at right time
(also i think some tweets got hidden in the thread idk how twitter works)
-Literally, everyone's story of how they got in is different, it sucks but sometimes it really comes down to right place at right time
(also i think some tweets got hidden in the thread idk how twitter works)
Sorry another addendum:
Please take this all with a grain of salt. This is just stuff that I learned getting from being out of school to my first industry job.
Not everything may work for you, you can find jobs outside of LA, you can deviate from these itâs all good!
Please take this all with a grain of salt. This is just stuff that I learned getting from being out of school to my first industry job.
Not everything may work for you, you can find jobs outside of LA, you can deviate from these itâs all good!
Iâm used to like four people seeing my tweets lol I donât wanna lead any of you astray!
