Sunday, April 12, 2015

response to why you shouldn't want an animation job article

This article is about Will Finn's career and how when he got a job in animation he'd expected to get a career of it working for a place like Disney. The article is not a list of reasons why someone shouldn't get a job in animation, instead its the chronology of this man's MANY different experiences at doing different jobs that he worked at then left or was fired until he found another job and the process would repeat. Finn is stating that each job he took built his career, and he learned something from each gig. It took a lot of jumping from one gig to the next but it built his skills, reputation, and knowledge.

I don't think he meant what I read the article title as. When it says something like Why you shouldn't want a job in animation I think he's saying "hey don't get into animation, its a bad career choice and here's why" but it seems to me he's saying you shouldn't get ONE single long job, but instead take multiple different jobs and learn from each experience. Don't get a job, get a career. As previously stated, the multiple jobs he took were new experiences that increased his skills and that he learned from. That's pretty cool.

(Obviously stating each place he worked at and what he did would just be tedious, and there's not a whole lot of information besides that. Weird article to do this kind of response to.)

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