You Know You're an Animator When...

You think about the how many frames it would take to animate when you see your friends walking

A bouncing ball is much more complicated than it looks

Besides the 'compelling storylines' anime really does suck

MAYA is not just the name of a girl you know

Same goes for BRYCE

When teachers draw stick figures you doubt their teaching ability...

When you are used to hearing gasps when you tell people exactly how long it took you to animate 'those 15 seconds'

Disney is a building full of gods

You know who Glen Keane, Andreas Deja, Ub Iwerks, and Bill Plympton are

Paper dominates everything else in your room

You are always think of new things to animate, even while animating something else

Drawing 200 drawings in one night is not that uncommon for you

Hearing the word 'Modeling' does not make you think of photographing advertisements

Hearing "Flash" has no sexual connotation

Hidden Mickeys are everywhere

You know exactly why the Disney sequels suck

You know what PSD, MOV, AVI, and AEP files are

Tarzan is the greatest musculature ever

Not going to sleep all night is not unusual

You hate X-sheets, but you know if you don't use them, it will all fall apart

Damn $500 hole punches

You can see the color change in Ratigans Cape (Great Mouse Detective) as he moves and changes layers

Flash really is a bitch

You can easily convince people to let you draw them (they ask me)

People act like your career choice is awesome, but you know they are thinking "Where the hell is the money in animation"

You can find the 'soul' in Sully's eyes... but Polar Express looks like a scene from 'The Exorcist'

You never want to hear how many individual hairs were rendered in Sully fur, or feathers on Chicken Little... ever again

CGI is not as easy as people make it sound

Neither is timing out the damn lip sync

There is no greater joy than watching what you just drew nonstop for a month come to life

Someone asks you what you thought of an animated film and you comment on the animation techinques

You watch Fantasia especially for Night On Bald Mountain and think wish I could animate like Bill Tytla

You skip the Night On Bald Mountain because you are just jaw droppingly shocked at how much detail has gone into and how well animated the whole thing is.

You think Fantasia is one of the best animated films ever despite your friends moaning that it has a soundtrack of classical music

You watch a cartoon on TV and start noticing repeated frames or backgrounds with ease.

You know that Tim Burton started as an animator for The Fox And The Hound

You know that Tim Burton worked on The Black Cauldron

You know that Vincent was Tim Burton's first success at stop motion.

You know Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare Before Christmas .... OR....Coraline.

You know that Don Bluth walked out (with over 30 other members of staff)halfway through The Fox and The Hound.

You refuse to watch any movies by Don Bluth because face it... they are awful. (not all of them, but most DO suck)

-You want Tim Curry or Jim Cummings to voice a villain in a film of yours because they are just brilliant.

-You demand to know why Basil of Baker Street : The Great Mouse Detective is such an under appreciated film. Also Vincent Price makes a brilliant villain.

You want to cry when you hear the words from your tutor ''it's good but if you re do this bit'' with the knowledge that you have just drawn, fine lined,scanned,colored and edited together at least a minute's rough cut.

You say you do animation and your friends who don't do it say ''are you mad? how can you stand drawing that much?''

You try to be sneaky in using repeated frames and hope nobody notices...

You spend a lot of time listening to music while coming up with concept art or waiting for rendering

Someone (from outside the knowledge of animation) looks at your work and goes''is that it?'' despite the fact you have just been spending at least 7 hrs a day for 15 weeks working on it and you feel the sudden urge to thump them.

You have practically no social life when animating during crunch time.

Looney Tunes not only make you laugh but the artwork and animation is draw you back to watch again and again

Anything.... literally anything... can happen 




Found this on facebook :)




In a few days I'm getting a brand new computer with enough Ram to kick animation ass! I bought Toon Boom 5 and its sitting here waiting to be installed on the new computer. I'm stoked, absolutely stoked. This Laptop is great for casual use but for what i want to do its really impossible!


I'm so excited for Toonboom 5 HAHA :D