You are greatly appreciated!

Mark Davidson,
Complete Amature

However, I must come to the CG animator’s defense her.

I’m a CG animator, a proud graduate of the Animation Mentor online school and I’m also “gasp* an ARTIST. I honestly could care less about the technical crap that goes in CG, fur, rendering, etc. I just want to animate and give a performance. Many of the CG animators I know feel the same.

CG animators are stereotyped as “tech nerds and not artists” which is complete bull. That’s all that idea is: a stereotype. And an outdated one at that.

I’m a professional film/animation/effects/design/art directing/director/producer/artist of 23 years. You can see my work if my website gets published here.

I ran the ARt Dept at Boss Film studios in the early 90s, when they went from old school effects into computers, for two and a half years. After that i worked at Cinesite Hollywood for a year doing the same, animation direction and design, while running the shop. Most of my career has been inside just about every kind of studio Hollywood has to offer and have storyboarded and animatic’d scads of every kind of production.

When i was starting out working with the “technicians” that were coming into the Art field i was discouraged. I saw that they weren’t artists first, but technicians first. This has not changed and has continued further. I saw this immediately. When i approached the head producer i was ripped a new one for recommending the training of artists into the technology instead of the training of technology engineers into art, which was my actual job, helping technicians to be “artistic”. I was told i was a trouble maker.

REvenge of the nerds, indeed. In truth the computer gives the ability to make things look “real” easier than before. This is the driving influence of it all. It looks real, so they forgive the artistry. Your comments here in this article are salient and it seems to be on this course now and it’s probably not gonna stop.

Eventually, perhaps, there will be a better balance between technology and artistry, but don’t hold your breath. The tech dorks that come out of all the schools, after learning some software, whom are literally begging to work for low pay, will be the darlings of the producers who, right or wrong, need to look at bottom line. Period. It’s producers loving the little kids that will work all night long for low pay that drive it all. Drink the cool-aid or get out. That, along with the penchant in America to kill Unions recently will probably continue unless we all wake up.

That being said, i like Pixar still. Great stories and a great bunch of artists. They seem to be the best from where i stand. Everyone else is just trying to squeeze art out of tech dorks. Not easy.

Also, the Globalist agenda to send all your jobs to India and China will help kill the ARt as well. Please bring back the jobs, and bring the boys back home. Enough war thank you.

Huge respect, Long live Art, and from Krakow, Poland, Peace.

Jmann
web.me.com/blue7is