Career Coach

Career Coach: The ABCDs of the Invisible Résumé

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
The Career Coach talks about the importance of the invisible résumé.

Career Coach: Employment Trick & Treats

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
This Halloween month, the Career Coach, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, shares some tricks and treats to help you stay employed.

Career Coach: Unemployment Insurance

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
This month, the Career Coach, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, goes tough-in-cheek about her dos and don’ts regarding sending out your résumé to potential employers.

Career Coach: Internships: An Introduction to a Career

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
This month the Career Coach, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, talks about how to test-drive a job or get your foot in the door via an internship.

Don’t Give Your Right Name! — Part 2

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
Gene Deitch continues with the story of his work with Jamison Handy and JHO.

Don’t Give Your Right Name! — Part 1

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
Fats Waller once said that, and another blues man sang, It Must Be Jelly, ’Cause Jam Don’t Shake Like That! There really was a man named Jam — Jam Handy — and he ran a 500-person studio in the then gloomy city of Detroit. It was an amazing adventure working there, in that most amazing, little-known but heavyweight studio. I directed my first film there, nearly had my tender career nipped, and discovered John Lee Hooker. 1949-51.

Career Coach: SIGGRAPH 2003

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld, VFXWorld | Columns: Career Coach
This month the Career Coach Pamela Kleibrink Thompson suggests what you need to get the most out of SIGGRAPH 2003, what to take and what attitudes to leave home.

Career Coach: Graduate to a Good Life

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
This month the Career Coach passes on some fatherly advice.

Tom Terrific 1958 Production Plan

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
Terrytoons. Here was my locale that most interests the animation historians. So now I finally have the chance to tell it like it really was. I name names — all the names, and print the pix. And all the production details about Tom Terrific. I tell you what I did and what I tried to do — a "renaissance" — a total make over... and I tell you why it failed.

UPA: Back To The Future — Part 1

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach
UPA again, and this time as creative chief! Bosustow beckoned and I was beamed to the Big Apple, the city of my youthful dreams. "If you can make it there…" etc. And I made it. Here are the vital statistics of that Golden Age studio.