What's professional? If you're an instructor, this is likely a tedious discussion. Recently, while renovating yet another apartment (don't ask) a possible discussion-ending metaphor occurred to me:

Being professional means using cheap sheets of plastic.

Occasionally I'm confronted with the following scenario:

an independent or student film is already half-finished, but now the budget's used up and the initiators are running out of steam / taking on jobs / otherwise reducing their future engagement on the production in question. But the film is really looking good and - yeah, it's half-finished!

Here's what I tell them...

Now that we have an animation target we use it to get a feel for our project's doability.

If you don't have a grip on how long you'll need to produce your animation, you don't have a grip on your animation. This first post on targets shows how easy it is to calculate an animation target, and how important...

Meet Veronica

Mike the paleontologist says: "Anybody can do this. You learn by doing."

David the animator says, "valuable advice."

Sports form a window to the soul of.... erm, okay. That's a bit thick. Football is only peripherally relevant to animation and yes - I'm stretching that relavance here. But somebody has to - its the World Cup after all. And it's truly interesting how a sport can reveal a country's mentality - or perhaps form it.

Correspondence allows insight into Walt Disney's ideas about the animation and what animators should be capable of.