Hi there,
I'd just like to know if some of you also have had that one moment you realized that you wanna become animator?
I
was aware of the fact, that I'm going to ba an animator some day, at the age of 5, when I saw "the little Mermaid". On the next day I told all my friends in the Kindergarten that I'll work for Disney some day...
Well, it's not disney yet, but at least I'm currently sitting in a studio producing animation films.... Somehow incredible....
So, have you experienced something like this too??
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"The Little Mermaid" at the age of 5?!?
All of a sudden, I feel very old..... :(
For me it was just last quarter...
Before that I was thinking of being either a concept artist or a character modeler for games and the like. Then I had my first 2D animation class and was terrified of it all. Thought it was going to be tedious and dumb.
While it can be tedious at times, but I absolutly love it! So I decided to become an animator at the age of 22.
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Well... when I was four I watched an episode of Sesame Street in shich they taught you how to make flipbooks. So I made my first one with scarp paper I taped together with masking tape and my red crayola marker. I told my mom I was gonna make cartoons when I grew up. I was hooked on An American Tail.
But as I got older I wanted to do other things... write and illustrate my own books when I was seven, a marine biologist and then an astronomer at 10. But when I was 11, I saw Aladdin. From the first frame of Princess Jasmine, I knew what I wanted to do.
i think i was 8 when i decided that i wanted to be an animator when i grew up.It was almost entirly due to chuck jones lol.
I have to admit though that i kinda gave up on my dream for a few years because i had no knowledge of how animation was made.
I then discovered the computer as an animation tool last year and my old dream can now be possible. :D
I had a head injury as a child.
My neurons were re-polarized in a way that mortal men cannot comprehend.
My destiny was writ from that day on.
It's true. Its damn true.
"We all grow older, we do not have to grow up"--Archie Goodwin ( 1937-1998)
At around the age of two I began drawing television cartoon characters from memory, and not very accurately. It was too long ago for me to recall a specific moment.
I always knew I loved drawing and comic books. The moment animation made its breakthrough was during those magical two hours back in '98 when I visited the Museum Of The Moving Image in London during a field trip. I messed up the entire schedule for the day by separating myself from the group and chatting with a Cosgrove Hall animator hosting the "Art of Space Jam" exhibit. People weren't too happy when they finally found me in the gift shop buying animation art books instead of looking for them. Back on the bus, I kept on lecturing about the connection between animation and literature - even though the only one who listened was my English teacher.
Ah, what a grand day out!
It was the 8o's and i had just seen how to make a flip book on Reading Rainbow, i think i was four or three ish.
Hmmm.... I thought I saw it on Sesame Street, but maybe it was Reading Rainbow for me too.
I can't believe that's what they told people. I cried so much the day I heard for sure they were really stopping 2D. Even now when I see commercials for the old Disney films, or CD's of the music, I get a little teary. It makes me mad to see them still marketing the 2D greats and capitalizing off of them... but not realizing that it's still a great medium. Well, I am glad that there are people like you who are trying to do something to keep it alive. (And all of those loyal 2D animators as well!)
Thank you Meleponine, that's exactly what I think! You're doing great, Miracle_sets!
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I am not exactly sure,probably when I was 12 , it was probably when I just finished watching Pokemon: The First Movie that expired me. I saw then that cartoons could be more just about entertainment and laughter, but it could also show deep meanings that could affect the people in many ways. As back then to today, I am still overwhelmed by many cartoons, and 2D films (mainly anime) which is the reason I am inspired to become an animator.
I never thought, I would hear the expression "deep meaning" and Pokemon in the same sentence....
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...not nearly as old as those of us whom weren't 5 when it came out.....
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I think for me it was when the Lion King came out. I was about 12 years old and I was totally obsessed. I'd draw the characters over and over...I loved it. It still has a place in my heart...but I'm definately a sucker for the old time Disney movies like Dumbo and Lady and the Tramp.
I'm the gal that watched cartoon after cartoon in my youth and have never stopped doing so. I'm a big kid. ;-)
It was when I was very young, I saw my first Stan Brakhage film and thought it was animation of some kind. So I decided video artist a la animation was for me.
It was Little Mermaid for me as well Bandita, although I was a bit older than 5. I feel old to DSB :( I always liked animation and would always draw the Disney characters, but when I saw Little Mermaid, specificly the scene where Triton forbids Ariel from going to the surface and her lip is trembling, I knew that is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Ahh, memory lane. I think I'll watch that movie again tonight.
Aloha,
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Ohhhh, it's such a good feeling to hear that sooo many of you are also addicted to animation and also feel like it's a kind of an "inevitalbe misson" to work as animator.
I never took any other job in account. But it was also a hard struggle, because my parents considered animation as no real job, and tried to push me in other directions. I had to fight very hard, but now they finally accept it & support me.
By the way, my deciding "little mermaid"- scene was when she was sitting as human on a stone, seeing Eric coming the way and making up her hair....
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I fell in love with animation before '98, of course. That must've been back in the 80s with the release of An American Tail and The Great Mouse Detective. Most likely the former.
Mine was when I was in second grade watching Snow White in class. The part where the evil queen is talking to the Magic Mirror, and her robe is flowing and everything was just like magic to me. I thought, "That's so awesome." It didn't really settle in till 5th grade when I finally realized that there were people that were paid to make these things.
(...hmph)
That particular epiphany would've been during The Duck Factory, starring a little-known stand-up comedian named Jim Carrey (wonder what that guy's doin' now? He was so talented). It was set in an animation studio, and those guys just had so much fun- y'know, gettin' into those wacky sitcom-like situations like they were- and I liked drawing and art, anyway...so, I figured, why not?
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time (it was either Duck Factory or Rockford Files; the animators didn't get beat up that much, so that cinched it for me).
Oh, yeah, Twice Upon A Time came out around then. And the Heavy Metal movie. And Hey, Good Lookin'. It was stuff a scraggly 125-lb. acne-case, mad at the world, could get behind. These pictures weren't pretty. They weren't nice. There was a rough-and-ready quality to 'em that suggested "Hey, kid, you could do this,too."
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Still does.
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It was when I went on a Florida vacation in November 2003 and took my family to see the Disney MGM Studios animation studio tour. When I asked why all the animators desks were empty, they said "That's because the animators did such a good job on Brother Bear, that they all were given a vacation Hiatius so they could get ready for the next feature". I soon found out that Disney was intending to let 2D die. This was so wrong that something had to be done to keep it alive. I vowed to do what I could to help.
I remembered that show fondly as well. Then I recently had a chance to see it again...man, what an atrocious sitcom that was. Writing stunk, wooden performances...it's no wonder it was cancelled.
But I still remember it fondly. Not quite in the "so bad it's good" category, but neither is Speed Racer, and I love that show too.
Here's my bass ackwards story: I had always liked cartoons, just like every other kid. But when I saw 'Animaniacs' premeire in 1993 I knew I was going to work in cartoons. Somehow, somewhere, I was going to be a cartoon-type-person. I originally thought I'd make my mark as a voice actor, but once I realized how impossible it was to get into voice acting, I figured the best thing to do was to make my own cartoons so I could cast myself as an actor. And if I wanted my own cartoons, I better learn how to animate!
( And yes- I loved the Little Mermaid too when I was little. Although it was really the music I favored the most back then. Now that I'm all grown up I can appreciate the animation. )
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I'd been fiddling around with flipbooks (made of stickynote pads) since I was little. But I hadn't really considered becoming an animator until I saw Twice Upon A Time. It gave me nightmares for a week, but I was so impressed with the style that I decided to give animation a shot.
I've been hooked ever since.
I liked watching Pokemon but Rurouni Kenshin got me hooked.I really wish that it wasn't cancelled... :(
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seeing stuff in movies etc. and not knowing how it was done. long ago, . . . . .
i'm only 18 now so not that long ago buy you get the idea.
i never really thought i actually wanted to be anything but an animator now that i think about it, not realistically. now i'm exactly where i want to be, freshman at the Kansas City Art Institute relearning all the fundamentals and loving every minute of it.
I know i'm probably a jerk for caring more about 3D than 2D right now but i am inspired by every frame of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. But i will still be animating in 2D without question. i still love all the classics (what is classic to me) but i enjoy recent works even more.
learn to imitate the best without flaw then use all that knowledge to create something amazing.
Well, it's square-enix. I'm in love with 2D, but every time I play a square game and see one of the cinematic sequences, I have my doubts. Briefly. Besides, that doesn't make you a jerk. You are entitled to your opinions. It's good your sticking with learning 2D though.
As for FF:AC.... how have you seen it? I didn't know it was released in the U.S. yet. I've been watching square's website for a release date. Must have missed it. Hmmm....
For me it was watching Falling Hare (by Bob Clampett c. 1943) at age 15. :cool:
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