Oooh nice incks! I also like the movement in your life drawing. /sigh i miss lifedrawing/art school. (i was a classically trained--

Animator for 4 years)

that last one a print?

No! thats just a scan of the original drawing. thats my luck gambler i told you about

And how come you didnt stick with animation lizor? not for you? its what im applying for

I'll explain when i get home XD doing the last hike hehe

ARE YOU HOME YET

LOL YUS XD /cracks knuckles

Yes I still want to be involved in the animation/film industry. XD

I just got chewed up and spit back out in college due to the medical issues i was dealing with plus I was half blind without glasses

so I couldn't keep up with the workload and crash and burned

I tried to graduate twice.

You have to me really sure you are ready. It won't be easy XD (tho I dunno what the curriculum is like where you wanna go)

be really sure ^

it is a lot of very very hard work and long hours.

So because of the heartbreak of the whole situation which was really traumatic for me - I haven't been able to draw nearly as much as I used

to since. This period was between 2005 and 2009. I moved here to Calgary July 2009 two weeks after I left the college.

I don't regret going...I love the industry and creating life in moving drawings. The creative process, pre and post production...

but I also admit that it broke my spirit a bit.

I have worked in before. I was paid-trained to make my own short film and I also worked as a storyboard artist on a private project before

i moved back to calgary. i have taken my time in applying but at this point i do feel like i need to take that step. i can't imagine

Oh nice Lucky you

myself doing anything else and being as happy as i was when i was training

You going to ACAD?

I applied for Capilano's two year commercial (traditional) animation program in North Vancouver

I have been drawing since I picked up a pencil at the wee young age of 1 and a half. XD Been wanting to make movies with Disney since

before I was 10 yrs old

SAME

let's hold hands

/clings

MY KINDRED SPIRIT

you should come to life drawing with me! It's only ten dollars

on wednesdays downtown

two years for classical? That was the same length of time as my program. It will probably be a hard intensive workload XD - not trying to

7 - 10 PM.

discourage you in the slightest. I'm just not sugarcoating it. XD

Yeah, no it's alright. i am expecting it to be difficult.

working on my short film was pretty tough in the workload-speed-quality sense.

WHERE???? aw man Wed? Those are my karate nights. The only opening to do life drawing for me now-a-days are on the weekends.

I would love to find a good affordable class

I've been trying to ressurect my art mojo for *years&

fuck can't type jfc

I think there's a weekend class out there somewhere, but i forget whereabouts.

there's also a long pose class in the NW on thursdays, for $20

Yeah I need to research and hunt around

i haven't been, but the idea of drawing someone from the same vantage point for two and a half hours freaks me out

though i'm sure the experience is quality

Waaaah. Yeah my work sched is Normally 1:30-10pm during the work week. Off weekends. Monday and Wed I work 9-5:30pm and karate after that.

Roough.

T.T I do miss art school tho.

I have weekends off two though!

too

I imagine if I had proper glasses/eyesight I probably would have made it.

:c

man trying to graduate twice sounds like a huge toll on the wallet

I've done both long and short poses...and even 30 second quick sketches. Those are fun XD

I LOVE GESTURE

Yeah - I'm pretty fucked financially

YUS XD

MY FAVORITE GESTURE SKETCH I'VE DONE SO FAR

GOD I HOPE THEY ACCEPT ME

just getting my portfolio in renewed a lot of enthusiasm i thought i'd lost

Oh very nice. You seem to have a good sense of movement. You'll need that XD

i have animated before, keep in mind!

verra cool

REAL STUFF TOO not just like oh here's some paper

i taught myself a dog's walk cycle

i mean i had a book to show me the order all the movements were in. the up's downs, of the head and back, but THE FACT REMAINS I TAUGHT ME

That's really cool XD We did walk cycles though I didn't get a chance to do the four legged one.

Haha XD

and not my teacher, who quite fucking frankly i animate 100 times better then.

but we're different artists. the course i took wasn't for like, animating professionals. it was basically targetting youth with employment

struggles. w hich i was having at the time

but it was already perfect for what i really wanted anyways

he's not as technically minded as i am, i think.

Hehe yeah.

The faculty I had was awesome. Most if not all worked in the business. In companies like Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Warners...stuff like that

Wow! Where did you study, anyway?

New Brunswick Community College - Miramichi

it's the best damn classical animation/arts program east of Sheridan Toronto.

tho not sure how Sheridan is doing these days. XD I went to Miramichi cuz it was closer and cheaper to home

Arts students take Arts Fundamentals as a prerec course for a year. Then they can branch out into Videogames, graphic design and animation

and those courses are two full time years. Off for the summer

so I was there for Fundies for one year, graduated that. Then Animation year 1 and year 2...then year 2 again.

i think sheridan is still the best you can probably go to in canada, only because they have teh contacts and a more motivated student body

but i don't qualify for their program sbecause i was really irresponsible with my academics

but capilano has a pretty high artistic standard so i feel comfortable with them as the alternative

for traditional animation in western canada

you're a newfie?

Nova Scotian XD

OHHH pardon my ignorance

doo you have an accent

Baah it's cool. And I'm not sure! I know ppl can hear acadian french in me if I'm excited or something.

Maan i can't wait to hang out and draw over a coffee or something. I'm off this Fri but its good friday so i dunno what's open. I was --

Whenever we meet it could b at a place like Starbucks or Tim's or whatever XD

I know on 10th st nw by sunnyside lrt station there's a second cup across from Safeway.

Ohh, KENSINGTON would be fun during the day, even if it's chilly as -fuck- get outtttt

I'll let you know tomorrow night? I might be wantign to just rest up on friday but saturday, maybe!

I know me and sis are planning on going to Radium hot springs overnight (Saturday night) so it depends on what time she wants to leave. X)

I can't see us going anywhere until mid to late afternoon lol. Just keep me posted and let me know!

OMG I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE IN YEARS

I work Thursday 1:30 til 10pm but I'll have my phone with me to plurk and whatever XD

fucking hotsprings!

SWEARING FOR NO REASO

NNNGH IKR??? I can't waaaaiiiit

oh jeez swear away - I can be a sailor myself sometimes haha

i work in the back of a kitchen. for all i'm concerned all i hear every day is a seven-hour string of swears

SO I CAN GET PRETTY OBNOXIOUS IN PERSON don't be afraid to be like dude gabe tame thyself

ROFL!! Oh god - it's been like that at my work too - but we've been told to clean it up a bit lol

i work at Staples on 32 ave NE. We're in the back behind receiving. Not in the public eye. We're like santa's workshop lol

(copy and print production center. The super hub dun dun duun)

Pfff I'm sure I can handle ya. I'm the one that's been told my volume button's been broke since birth

lol

HAHAHHA oh man sounds like a party

ROFL yeeessss

Tho I'd like to think I'm not as bad except for when I'm excited..then my inner french Acadian comes out

and IKR about the cold? WTF SNOWSTORM okay I know its only the beginning of April...BUT STILL

I AM TIRED OF WINTER

I AM LIKE ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS

YOU WAIT UNTIL APRIL 3RD TO BREAK OUT A LEGITIMATE BLIZZARD, MOTHER NATURE