Over at Blender Nation, Tim Formica has posted his interview with the founders of AnimationMentor.com that took place at SIGGRAPH 2007. This is a 2 part video interview with Bobby Beck and Carlos Baena of Pixar, and Shawn Kelly of ILM. For those who aren’t familiar with Animation Mentor, it is an online school for animation, and all of the instructors work in the industry at places like Pixar, Disney, ILM, Dreamworks, and PDI.
Interview Part 1
Interview Part 2
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Those guys are incredible. The service the provide to aspiring animators is absolutely priceless. And to see and hear the passion they have for it. Fantastic.
I’m not always this jolly.
No, really.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I really like what they do and how they help starting animators get in to the industry. I’m going to post something similar on my site.
Edit: http://dukeprotocol.blogspot.com/2007/08/tim-formicas-interview-with.html
August 24th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Nice Duke! I hope our links generate even a little traffic for the videos.
Jolly DaveC, yes incredible. I’d love to go through the program someday!
August 24th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Well you could probably visit their HQ. They’re located in Berkeley. (That’s not too far from you right?)
August 24th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Yeah Berserkly! Only a few hours away.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
uhmmm $16 Grand!!!! Yeah they are amazing and all but with comments like “we want this to be available to everyone” in the first interview… I for one do not have that sort of money.
August 25th, 2007 at 3:37 am
Well that’s over an 18-month period.
August 25th, 2007 at 4:15 am
$16000 dollars is still a lot of money. Very good value but very hard to find if you don’t have that kind of income.
August 25th, 2007 at 6:04 am
$16,000? No Problem.
I went there and said, “I want to sign up!”
The lady behind the counter said, “That’ll be $16,000.”
I said, “Can you break a $20,000?”
August 25th, 2007 at 11:24 am
XD
August 25th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I really don’t know how you animators do it. I have been playing with it (Thanks to Apollos) and I just don’t have the creative eye it takes. It is still fun to play with though. If I had to do this for a living, I’d soon starve!
August 26th, 2007 at 4:59 am