Sir I have been practicing my Aussie accent and I need a little fine tuning, you need to get a Skype and coach me as I may be moving there as an adult.
Animation is the imagination laid bare for all to see, our own personal constructed realities shared with others, story telling in it's purest form, or just a bunch of funny shit drawn for people to laugh their arses off to. It's all good.
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seriously? it seems that everyone is moving here... what's going on?
Idk sir, it just seems like I belong there.
Also, I might work something up for the secret handshake just for some feedback. If by some crazy crazy crazy off-chance mine is the most popular then you take the prize. But yeah, I haven't really done too much animating in a while.
I get the prize? 8D
you better win then :3
I'm working on a picture for you :3
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ME!!
Hey man just saying that your animations are epic, you have this unique style where your characters can just transform like modelling clay or something. Never seen anything like that since Ol' Morph. And that Bear to the top left - its hypnotic like a lava lamp. :)
Thanks man, I never know how to respond to compliments... :)
Wow, thanks for the tips and info! So VCA is only one year? Can't you do any more years there?
Oh, and what do you do?
I think the VCA offers a three year degree aswell, but the post graduate program is the one with the most success...
I teach Illustration and Design at NMIT in Preston and Fairfield. I'm doing some post graduate study at RMIT in graphic design. LOGOs are fun... :(
This fish made 4 touchdowns in its last hockey game. After that it ate cheesecake with its side face, Blorbus, and then decided to spin around in this cycle of a neverending post/animation. And that's where I come in. Gewd.....gewd.
well puck me, I never realised it played hockey! 8O
I went to a party at the local county jail
All the cons were dancing and the band began to wail
But the guys were indiscreet
They were brawling in the street
At the local dance at the local county jail
Well the band were playing
And the booze began to flow
But the sound came over on the police car radio
Down at precinct 49
Having a tear-gas of a time
Sergeant baker got a call from the governor of the county jail
Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
I love to hear those convicts squeal
Its a shame these slugs aint real
But we cant have dancin at the local county jail
Sergeant baker and his men made a bee-line for the jail
And for miles around
You could hear the sirens wail
Theres a rumor goin round death row
That a fuse is gonna blow
At the local hop at the local county jail
Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do
Sergeant baker started talkin
With a bullhorn in his hand
He was cool, he was clear
He was always in command
He said blood will flow;
Here padre
Padre you talk to your boys...
Trust in me -
God will come to set you free
Well we dont understand
Why you called in the national guard
When uncle sam is the one
Who belongs in the exercise yard
We all got balls and brains
But somes got balls and chains
At the local dance at the local county jail
Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets
Is it really such a crime
For a guy to spend his time
At the local dance at the local county jail
At the local dance at the local county jail
Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do
What about those little doods, the... things that dance around... in stop motion?
you've been dreaming and thinking it's real again haven't you?
So you're going to two schools?
By the way, RMIT looks pretty nice. And nice fishie.
I teach at one and learn at the other one.
TommyVF
Do you know any nice animation/creative school in Melbourne or Australia? Are you currently goin to a creative school in Melbourne now?
TheBoogley
It depends on what you want to get out of it.
RMIT have a solid course called Animation and Interactive Media which focus' on storytelling and personal expression through animation. They have had success with independant film making graduates.
Deakin university have a Bachelor of Film and Digital Media, which has a large 3D component and they even have a motion capture lab. Deakin is good for landing work in both the games and film industry.
Swinburne has a Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Design) which teaches graphic design for animation, web and game development. I don't know very much about that one, but it could lead to work in more general graphic design areas like web design and advertising.
The most long running and successful course I've seen people come through is run by the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and it's a one year post graduate course called the graduate diploma in Film and Television (animation stream). They don't teach technical skills but more guide people's research and help them to become animators, with most of the graduates going straight into the animation industry the next year. Adam Elliot, who won the oscar for HARVIE KRUMPET did this course in 1996.