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So, I have a slew of questions for you artists out there that I BEG you will take the time to answer. It is hard to find clues and answers in this world when you don't really know anyone in the industry but your school art teacher.
1. What is your job(s) as an artist? How did you get them?
2. College degree, worth it? You learn a lot in college but people hire you based off your quality of work so should you blow all that money?
3. I want to go to CalArts to study animation so I can one day open a studio or become a director. Tips/changes I should make?
4. SCAD vs CalArts vs RISD vs UCLA vs NYArt Academy vs Full Sail vs public school with art programs vs wherever you went if you did go...who wins and why?
5. Can an engineering degree of any kind be used in art at all? I keep hearing that it can be...
6. Should I study animation or art? I want to have a versitile degree but currently director is the goal.
7. How hard is it to get an art job?
8. Do you make most your living online or in real life? How?
9. Contests, festivals, art magazines, ect, how do you feel about them and having your art in them?
10. I obviously don't know what I'm doing, so, any other ideas or suggestions for me?
FInally
11. Where can I find an art mentor to direct my further questions/would you be willing to be one for me?
1. What is your job(s) as an artist? How did you get them?
2. College degree, worth it? You learn a lot in college but people hire you based off your quality of work so should you blow all that money?
3. I want to go to CalArts to study animation so I can one day open a studio or become a director. Tips/changes I should make?
4. SCAD vs CalArts vs RISD vs UCLA vs NYArt Academy vs Full Sail vs public school with art programs vs wherever you went if you did go...who wins and why?
5. Can an engineering degree of any kind be used in art at all? I keep hearing that it can be...
6. Should I study animation or art? I want to have a versitile degree but currently director is the goal.
7. How hard is it to get an art job?
8. Do you make most your living online or in real life? How?
9. Contests, festivals, art magazines, ect, how do you feel about them and having your art in them?
10. I obviously don't know what I'm doing, so, any other ideas or suggestions for me?
FInally
11. Where can I find an art mentor to direct my further questions/would you be willing to be one for me?
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Movie Review - Thumbelina
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Movie reviews might be a thing that I start doing. Anyway, I just watched Thumbelina for the first time and well, that was a waste of an hour of my life. Let me let you in on why.
So, the movie starts with the most annoying bird ever to exist on the face of the planet. Honestly, his voice will probably make 1/4 of viewers stop the movie right there. I in fact had trouble finishing this movie, but we'll get to that later. So, the bird sings and his song goes "If you follow your heart you're sure to do impossible things" so, let me guess, if Thumbelina works for love she will do "impossible" things. Oh my, you've guessed correctly! Then, the story book literally opens as the bird describes the story of an old woman who wants a child. She goes to a witch for a child because logic, and the which gives her a flower and says "see what happens" because, logic. The flower blooms and the woman kisses it, because, logic. The flower then opens and reveals TinkerBelle (because she's birthed from a flower)....oh wait, Giselle (a I the only one who thinks they look alike?) with longer hair?!...no, Thumbelina. A fully grown teenager who for some reason assumes the old woman is her mother and also can speak perfect English, because, logic.
Thumbelina's mother introduces the internal struggle of our main character by reading to her about fairies and letting her know that fairies perhaps exist. She says "I wonder if fairies really are real" and well, considering the predictability of this movie, I'm guessing that- OH LOOK, FAIRIES! Blahblahblah stuffstuffstuff, and the fairy (prince of course) breaks into her room. Thumb is like oh no, stranger danger, and dives into a teapot, that, I liked. He convinces her to come out of the pot, more crap happens, and after talking for about two minutes, they already almost kiss. Then cue music as we sing Let Me Be Your Wings, literally claim how we will never drop our "only love" we met two minutes ago, and then drop her. Yes. Thumbelina is all googoogaga on his wings and says she wishes she had wings. My thought right at that moment was, if she ends this movie with wings I'm going to barf. The couple agrees to have their parents meet each other in the morning and dismiss each other.
So, all throughout the movie, more horrifically annoying voice acting is introduced. Examples: Bug Jago (the bird from Aladdin), did I mention the bird, Thumbelina herself (even tho she's voiced my Ariel, she's flipping obnoxious) a frog who tries to get thumbelina to marry her son, a mole who tries to get thumbelinia to marry "The Mole", the list goes on. Also, the plot gets really, really, really, really, REALLY, repetitive.
Thumbelina is trying to get home, it's impossible!, the bird reprises his stupid song, Thumbelina tries to go home, she runs into people, eventually, someone in this train of people she's met wants to marry her, she's roped into their game for a while, she gets away, rinse, repeat. Let us go into each scenario.
First, the Spanish frogs. I'd like to mention now that this story takes place in Paris and the only one with a french accent is that bird. Now, the Spanish frogs are semi-non understandable creatures living in a happy, "rich and famous" family. They sing to people. They ask Thumb to join their little singing thing and tell her she'll be big if she does. Being as smart as she is, she misinterprets big in fame to big in size and agrees to sing. They sing, and honestly, I wasn't even sure if they were still speaking English at this point, and for some reason, the son loves her. He says it's because of her voice. So, the son frog asks the mom frog if he can marry Thumbelina, she says yes, Thumbelina says no, and knowing she doesn't want to, they leave her alone on a lilly pad for some reason. She goes on about how life is impossible and poof, bird, bird who would rather let her fall off a waterfall, then just FLY HER AWAY FROM THE DANGER FOR CHRISTS SAKE, but whatever.
So, Thumb is done with impossibility and back to trying to walk home, instead of, say, getting a lift on the bird who's been following you around? She meets a Beetle who's voiced by the same guy who voiced Eyago, the Parrot in Aladdin. He calls her toots repeatedly and for her beautiful voice, makes her sing with him....SOUND FAMILIAR? So, somehow her weird outfit gets ripped off, and the croud who was obsessed with her thinks she's ugly, which she is. Every time they do a close up of her face I cringe, but anyway, she leaves. Suddenly, like legit in two seconds, winter starts. The bird's wing is hit by a thorn, and instead of just pulling it out, he continues to fly ingured. Prince magic-face falls in a river, and just as he is swimming out, it freezes. Obviously, he's dead now, considering people die just from being in water UNDER the ice, better yet the actual ice (but let's be real, we all know he's going to be thawed out). So, the frog and the Beetle who are know working together find the prince and assume, as he should be, that he is dead. Thumbelina takes shelter in, as sock. -_-
When our heroine wakes up, she's in the room of a mole. This female mole tells her her prince is dead and when thumb starts crying, she monotonically says "It's so sad". It is in fact not sad, because she ushures her along to meet The Mole, because there are no other moles in this story obviously. Stuff happens and because things are impossible Thumb decides to marry the said mole, after singing for him of course.
At the wedding, she has flashbacks of the five minutes she spent with prince trail-of-dust-so-long-behind-him-how-has-no-one-ever-seen-him-before, so she decides to go after him instead of the mole. So, prince gets thawed out, she goes to the fariy palace, he shows up, they kiss, are wed, stuff is magical, and then...
SHE
GETS
WINGS
Why? WHO KNOWS?!?! IT JUST HAPPENS!! JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN!!!
I didn't even cover everything I could with this movie, there's too much, it's just horrific. Rating, one of five starts, and the one star is for Hero the dog, because he really does try his hardest to save Thumb. Did I mention how ridiculous it is that Prince SparklyFace can talk to dogs? Anyway, I'll come back to this movie but for now, just know, you shouldn't watch it, ever. EVER.
So, the movie starts with the most annoying bird ever to exist on the face of the planet. Honestly, his voice will probably make 1/4 of viewers stop the movie right there. I in fact had trouble finishing this movie, but we'll get to that later. So, the bird sings and his song goes "If you follow your heart you're sure to do impossible things" so, let me guess, if Thumbelina works for love she will do "impossible" things. Oh my, you've guessed correctly! Then, the story book literally opens as the bird describes the story of an old woman who wants a child. She goes to a witch for a child because logic, and the which gives her a flower and says "see what happens" because, logic. The flower blooms and the woman kisses it, because, logic. The flower then opens and reveals TinkerBelle (because she's birthed from a flower)....oh wait, Giselle (a I the only one who thinks they look alike?) with longer hair?!...no, Thumbelina. A fully grown teenager who for some reason assumes the old woman is her mother and also can speak perfect English, because, logic.
Thumbelina's mother introduces the internal struggle of our main character by reading to her about fairies and letting her know that fairies perhaps exist. She says "I wonder if fairies really are real" and well, considering the predictability of this movie, I'm guessing that- OH LOOK, FAIRIES! Blahblahblah stuffstuffstuff, and the fairy (prince of course) breaks into her room. Thumb is like oh no, stranger danger, and dives into a teapot, that, I liked. He convinces her to come out of the pot, more crap happens, and after talking for about two minutes, they already almost kiss. Then cue music as we sing Let Me Be Your Wings, literally claim how we will never drop our "only love" we met two minutes ago, and then drop her. Yes. Thumbelina is all googoogaga on his wings and says she wishes she had wings. My thought right at that moment was, if she ends this movie with wings I'm going to barf. The couple agrees to have their parents meet each other in the morning and dismiss each other.
So, all throughout the movie, more horrifically annoying voice acting is introduced. Examples: Bug Jago (the bird from Aladdin), did I mention the bird, Thumbelina herself (even tho she's voiced my Ariel, she's flipping obnoxious) a frog who tries to get thumbelina to marry her son, a mole who tries to get thumbelinia to marry "The Mole", the list goes on. Also, the plot gets really, really, really, really, REALLY, repetitive.
Thumbelina is trying to get home, it's impossible!, the bird reprises his stupid song, Thumbelina tries to go home, she runs into people, eventually, someone in this train of people she's met wants to marry her, she's roped into their game for a while, she gets away, rinse, repeat. Let us go into each scenario.
First, the Spanish frogs. I'd like to mention now that this story takes place in Paris and the only one with a french accent is that bird. Now, the Spanish frogs are semi-non understandable creatures living in a happy, "rich and famous" family. They sing to people. They ask Thumb to join their little singing thing and tell her she'll be big if she does. Being as smart as she is, she misinterprets big in fame to big in size and agrees to sing. They sing, and honestly, I wasn't even sure if they were still speaking English at this point, and for some reason, the son loves her. He says it's because of her voice. So, the son frog asks the mom frog if he can marry Thumbelina, she says yes, Thumbelina says no, and knowing she doesn't want to, they leave her alone on a lilly pad for some reason. She goes on about how life is impossible and poof, bird, bird who would rather let her fall off a waterfall, then just FLY HER AWAY FROM THE DANGER FOR CHRISTS SAKE, but whatever.
So, Thumb is done with impossibility and back to trying to walk home, instead of, say, getting a lift on the bird who's been following you around? She meets a Beetle who's voiced by the same guy who voiced Eyago, the Parrot in Aladdin. He calls her toots repeatedly and for her beautiful voice, makes her sing with him....SOUND FAMILIAR? So, somehow her weird outfit gets ripped off, and the croud who was obsessed with her thinks she's ugly, which she is. Every time they do a close up of her face I cringe, but anyway, she leaves. Suddenly, like legit in two seconds, winter starts. The bird's wing is hit by a thorn, and instead of just pulling it out, he continues to fly ingured. Prince magic-face falls in a river, and just as he is swimming out, it freezes. Obviously, he's dead now, considering people die just from being in water UNDER the ice, better yet the actual ice (but let's be real, we all know he's going to be thawed out). So, the frog and the Beetle who are know working together find the prince and assume, as he should be, that he is dead. Thumbelina takes shelter in, as sock. -_-
When our heroine wakes up, she's in the room of a mole. This female mole tells her her prince is dead and when thumb starts crying, she monotonically says "It's so sad". It is in fact not sad, because she ushures her along to meet The Mole, because there are no other moles in this story obviously. Stuff happens and because things are impossible Thumb decides to marry the said mole, after singing for him of course.
At the wedding, she has flashbacks of the five minutes she spent with prince trail-of-dust-so-long-behind-him-how-has-no-one-ever-seen-him-before, so she decides to go after him instead of the mole. So, prince gets thawed out, she goes to the fariy palace, he shows up, they kiss, are wed, stuff is magical, and then...
SHE
GETS
WINGS
Why? WHO KNOWS?!?! IT JUST HAPPENS!! JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN!!!
I didn't even cover everything I could with this movie, there's too much, it's just horrific. Rating, one of five starts, and the one star is for Hero the dog, because he really does try his hardest to save Thumb. Did I mention how ridiculous it is that Prince SparklyFace can talk to dogs? Anyway, I'll come back to this movie but for now, just know, you shouldn't watch it, ever. EVER.
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I'm scarred for life
1 min read
I know the original comic of tmnt is kind of....gore filled I guess. But I got curious. You think I would've learned from five nights a Freddy's, but no, me being the dumb fool I am, I looked it up.
And I saw a scene where they killed shredder.
He wasn't like epic, scary, covered in weapons, serious threat shredder
He was just a scrawny man with a blade on his hand.
And then Leo stabbed him.
And he looked so mortified. I mean obviously, he was dying, i just...
so.
mortified.
And I saw a scene where they killed shredder.
He wasn't like epic, scary, covered in weapons, serious threat shredder
He was just a scrawny man with a blade on his hand.
And then Leo stabbed him.
And he looked so mortified. I mean obviously, he was dying, i just...
so.
mortified.
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TMNT is my SHOW. We need to talk.
3 min read
The 2012 rendition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Nick is like the best show in the history of the universe ever at all and I will cry when it ends. I saw this picture on google while trying to collect images for a shipping chart, and well, we need to talk. 38.media.tumblr.com/cdc27be999… <---- the death of my soul.
First of all, Raph is my favorite character in the show thus far. I used to really like Leo but, when they changed his voice I was just...no. I can't anymore. I still love the show and Leo is still cool but I can't deal. Raph has moved up the rankings because of that, and because I've just started paying more attention to him. Like, I mean, do you see those eyes!? The turtles have so oddly colored eyes but they are so BRIGHT! Gives the illusion that he's attractive. An ANIMATED TURTLE is attractive to me. I need help. Also, his personality. He's a tough guy but he doesn't have to fake like he has no feelings all the time and I love that! He's also really sarcastic and funny
Second of all, April and Raph is not really something I've noticed in TMNT. I just recently found out about the ship and have noticed snippits of it here and there. For example, I just watched the new episode. At the end, Donnie and Casey were getting along and Attention-Whore-April got mad jealous. Raph was like "I feel your pain" or something along those lines and she put an arm around his shoulder. I SEE YOU NICKELODEON, TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYONE!! I SEE YOU, YOU AINT SNEAKY!
And finally, third of all, I hate you. I hate you for making this and having it be so true. Like, as I started to notice hints of Raph and April's light flirting, I SEE IT!! I mean...Raph is trying to hold himself back but he can't resist a little instinctive flirting every now and then. I feel like I can relate to how he feels and THAT MUST SUCK SO BAD! Poor Raph.
(not even canon and I'm mad about it)
It's okay tho, because ever since a while after Kari's appearance, I've created "Raph's girl" in my mind. She will come sooner or later. She will. I know it.
First of all, Raph is my favorite character in the show thus far. I used to really like Leo but, when they changed his voice I was just...no. I can't anymore. I still love the show and Leo is still cool but I can't deal. Raph has moved up the rankings because of that, and because I've just started paying more attention to him. Like, I mean, do you see those eyes!? The turtles have so oddly colored eyes but they are so BRIGHT! Gives the illusion that he's attractive. An ANIMATED TURTLE is attractive to me. I need help. Also, his personality. He's a tough guy but he doesn't have to fake like he has no feelings all the time and I love that! He's also really sarcastic and funny
Second of all, April and Raph is not really something I've noticed in TMNT. I just recently found out about the ship and have noticed snippits of it here and there. For example, I just watched the new episode. At the end, Donnie and Casey were getting along and Attention-Whore-April got mad jealous. Raph was like "I feel your pain" or something along those lines and she put an arm around his shoulder. I SEE YOU NICKELODEON, TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYONE!! I SEE YOU, YOU AINT SNEAKY!
And finally, third of all, I hate you. I hate you for making this and having it be so true. Like, as I started to notice hints of Raph and April's light flirting, I SEE IT!! I mean...Raph is trying to hold himself back but he can't resist a little instinctive flirting every now and then. I feel like I can relate to how he feels and THAT MUST SUCK SO BAD! Poor Raph.
(not even canon and I'm mad about it)It's okay tho, because ever since a while after Kari's appearance, I've created "Raph's girl" in my mind. She will come sooner or later. She will. I know it.
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I'm back...kind of
1 min read
I mean, I want to end my hiatus but Idk how committed i can stay. I WILL be posting a picture I've been working on for art class tho. I just finished it...I think..so lemme know how u guys feel bout it!
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