DigitalDuckling

I finally got access to AnimationMentor. I was able to log in on the 18th,

Run away!

but it was not to the full website; just a limited orientation site, but yesterday it finally opened up. And let me tell you it was worth the wait. I have got fellow students in my class from all around Europe and South Africa. My current Mentor in the Basic Foundations program is Ruth Daly, who have worked on The Iron Giant and Futurama for TV. I’m really excited and tomorrow we get to met her in the Live Q & A!
So now my headset is ready and my microphone is working as good as it gets. Hopefully I don’t come out as a complete idiot.
Even though there are no deliveries for this week we got a simplified version of the manikin-like rig “Stewie” called Stu, (without the extra wie,) on which we can play around with poses.

This is about me just kind of laying my previous animation knowledge behind me and starting over; really getting in there from the basics and working myself, (not back but,) up into a better animator that I was before.
I like their philosophy as well; “There is no BEST animator” And I can only look upon my two years at Noroff as a trail and error phase, I can’t say that it was a complete wast of time; I learned a lot and I got even more sure that I wanted to be an animator.

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After a nerve wrecking day after my birthday, I got incredible news! I’ accepted! To where you might ask? And my answer to that is as incredible as Animation Mentor. I can’t wait to start the courses! Guess my stay-at-home Maya training will pay off Now lets just hope that the NOK increases or the USD falls a little before March 6th. Thats when my first tuition is due.

I was really scared after the Wonderlic exam as I thought it was really important to get high scores. And when I took it I wasn’t really sobered up after my birthday. The other thing about it is that its only 8 minutes. And then you don’t get to do shit! But even though I ended up not reading half the questions, (I can’t help that I’m a slow reader,) I guess it was good enough.

Tried to do some drawn animation in Flash too today, but I guess I suck more there than in PhotoShop. Why aren’t the hotkeys keys similar? -Because Adobe din’t make the first versions. Guess I’ll try ToonBoom next.

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I finally got the finger out of my bum and signed up for Animation Mentor.
Next thing is an 8 minute test to verify that I can study I guess.
and then its just up to Admissions. This will be awesome! Hopefully I get in
and hopefully the weather doesn’t kill me this spring and cause me sabotage.

Success!

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