leefpot asked:

do you think artists who dont go to big private art schools can still find opportunities to work in the animation industry?

i go to a UWStout for animation, but it always feels like people find more connections from much bigger schools

You can definitely make it without some big fancy school!

I have friends who never even went to art school who work in animation. I did not get any animation connections from my art school at all and I did not do the animation program. I learned character design on my own and I met the people who helped me find jobs at group gallery shows and comic conventions.

Art school was most useful to me because I had friends and we really motivated each other to make more art and get better.

You can do it!

invidiouscharmy asked: Hey, sorry to bring up an old post! But I saw your fan art of Conker (which was incredibly cute), and wondered why you disliked the games so much. 0w0”

I love the conker design and I love him in Diddy Kong racing, but the tone of the games is pretty rough and very South Park-y and of the time. I really liked how cute conker was and was bummed out that he was rude as hell! Also the game is really hard to play.

zowabob asked: How did you get that position? Did you go to school for animation or anything like that?

I went to Savannah College of Art & Design to study Sequential Art (comics). I didn’t really think animation was an option for me, even though I desperately wanted to do it. I mostly made a name for myself outside of cartoons, making webcomics, going to conventions, doing gallery shows. I ended up meeting a lot of my friends who ended up working in animation from that community. My first work was on Yo Gabba Gabba, where I boarded, designed and painted the short Mermaids. A lot of the animation on that show was from folks outside animation, from there I found my way into freelance character design on Bee & Puppycat, then props design due to some friends of mine on Star vs The Forces of Evil. When the character design position came up on Star, I did a test for it and managed to get it. From there I just kept on specializing in character design. After about five years I ended up in a lead/supervisor role!

vykaa asked: Hey, looks like capture creature 27 and earlier aren't showing up? Not sure if it's just me or what. Also around #40-50 the tag switched from "capturecreatures" to "capture creatures" which made it a bit difficult to check them all out.

I’m going to start re-posting all of Capture Creatures!!!