i visited hspva a year after i graduated and mr. cizsek found my artist statement in his stack of old installation proposals. he read it aloud to everyone in the art office and i was so embarrassed and he gave it to me to take home and i burned it

and that’s why you write a good artist statement

i wasn’t gonna write an iron man 3 post unless asked so wooo excuse to do it! yeah so

spoilers, opinions, and incomplete thoughts under

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deannambrigman said: I didnt go to this school but the Acting for Animators class I took was helpful. It was drilled into us that as an animator you were an “actor with a pencil”, so it is important to get away from the desk and “be” your character.

the big problem with the acting for animators class that i took was that the teacher was an actual stage/film actor who didn’t know that much about animation outside of “oh i did voices for an animation one time…” so while the class started off focusing on performance, it eventually turned more into a class about “creating characters” from an actor’s standpoint it was mostly just irrelevant. plus our final (big chunk of grade) was to perform a monologue from memory and it’s just like, why, why would i ever need to this as an ANIMATOR. idk if that teacher will still be teaching the class in the future though… coffs

but ok here’s my favorite memory from acting class:

so one week’s assignment was like… characterization using animals- which is something i actually do a lot, like associating a character with an animal. so over the weekend the class had to go to the zoo and observe an animal to work with in class, and i really like pretty cats so i choose the snow leopard. so in class, before working on a chracter, the teacher made us spend about an hour just acting like the animal. LIKE the teacher turned off the lights and made us get down on all fours and crawl around like animals and we couldn’t talk JUST MAKE ANIMAL NOISES. so that was already getting kind of weird and THEN after like 30 minutes the teacher started to prompt us how to act. she was like, “okay everyone you’re all happy animals today because the lions and leopard aren’t around!!” and my dumb ass says, “ma’am i’m actually a leopard” and she’s like “oh!! well you go over there under that table” and she makes me hide under a table for ten minutes while prompting everyone else. THEN FINally she made me chase everyone around the room ON ALL fucking FOURS and roar at everyone and was just there on floor thinking “wow this is a college class”

so yah. and for my final i did christopher walken’s monologue from pulp fiction in a southern accent

dat

class

after many months of silliness i finally watched the avengers with my mom

when captain america showed up she was like, “what happened to his face, he isn’t as handsome”

and then he turned around and she was like, “oh never mind he is still handsome”

mam….

omg while is was typing this post she came into my room and asked me why is the hulk ugly

why… is the hulk ugly???