Clean and Tidey Work Space...................part 1

Believe it or not the key to success all boils down to how clean and organized your work area is. The students who always keep there work station in order are always the students that produce the best work. Always remember to keep all your animation pages numbered and neatly stacked in a secure location. Always keep all your supplies together, for example store them in pencil box or some kind of easily accessible zippered case. Never eat or drink anywhere near your work area and be sure always place your leftover food and rappers in the proper designated waste receptacles. Be sure to shower everyday and wash hair using a shampoo of your choice. follow these simple rules and the keys to success will be yours for the taking.


PLEASE............I hope you didn't believe one single word of that crap. Speaking from experience animators are the most lazy, procrastinating, strange, messy,unorganized, unshowerd, zombiefied, comic book obsessed, jerking off to anime porn, bunch of people in the world.......(self included except for the the jerking off to anime porn, I prefer live action porn) Well at least in the school I go to, of course with the exception of a given few.

Usually by mid year the animation rooms resemble some kind of garbage recycling, food composting, dirty laundry facility, rather than a place where animation is produced. On a bad day there is definitely a distinct odour, like when you walk into someones house for the first time and there's this smell you cant put your finger on. Well its kind like that. Sometimes I think it smells like a second hand store built out of wet cardboard boxes with a hint of a three week old tuna sandwich.
Now don't get me wrong the people in the coarse are some of the best people I ever met, simply because most of us all share a common interest. I would much rather do my work here in the Star wars garbage chute than to have to sit through a class called strategies for success.



...........I think somewhere under all the mess there actually lives one of those one eyed tentacle monsters! ;)