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Some days I just feel completely burnt out from being told "no" by every avenue I try. The fact is, I can animate, whether in televison, film, or gaming, it's all the SAME THING regardless or what medium you present it in. The principles are the same, and the process differs very little from one production to another. In fact I would dare say television animation is a lot more difficult than gaming animation because everything has to be keyframed, from the biggest body movement to the smallest facial expression. It takes a lot more planning, finessing, and tweaking to give the characters the illusion of life compare to gaming animation where most of its cinematic animations are motion captured. It is a simple plug-n-play process, go to your animation tracker, import mocap clip data, and apply to your character, voila, how hard is that? A monkey can do it. And here I am being told I am not qualified to do the job after having working in the animation industry for the last 10 years. Apparently I haven't worked in a gaming company before and therefore I must not know how to animate for games. That's fucked.
Aside from that I've also applied to a few web companies in hopes that I can fall back on that until the animation industry in Vancouver recovers, after all I have built a few websites in my days and do know Flash actionscript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, PHP, XML, javascript, CSS, mySQL, and pfft, HTML. Oh did I mention I also bilingual, good with photography and do logos and namecard designs?
Apparently that's still not good enough, to obtain a position I would still need to know let's see C++, VISUAL BASIC, Python, ASP.NET, JSP, Oracle, Cisco, Java, Perl, VBScript, play piano, perform brain surgery, sew dresses, and oh plumbing. And we'll pay you like $12 bucks an hour...(really, check it out on Craigslist, the some of the qualification lists on the ads are RIDICULOUS!) While I understand there is a considerable different between the animation industry and the web industry, a lot of the times the mediums are interchangeable. We also require lots of Photoshop and Illustrator work in animation, and in case of online games the ability to animate in Flash is a MUST. The point is, I can deal with just about anything they can throw at me, but they have to be willing to throw at me first. Most of the time they just took one look at my resume and said: "this guy's too specialized in animation" and throw it in the garbage. I've tried calling past companies I've worked for, get a few colleagues to hand in my resume for me, signed up on online networking sites, and even put up my own website for exposure. Like, what ELSE is there to DO?