First Day at AnimationMentor.com

The first day of school is today! I've been waiting for this day for quite a while now. First time I heard about this school was on CGTalk quite awhile ago. I never thought I'd be able to take classes there and pursue my dream of working in animation. Now I can't believe I'm actually attending this awesome school!

This blog will chronicle my journey through animation. I haven't animated any characters before so this is going to be an interesting ride. I plan on updating this blog regularly, so I hope all of you enjoy reading about the trials and tribulations of an animator in progress with life thrown in the mix for good measure and balance.

For those that don't know what AnimationMentor is - read on:

It's an online based school that specializes in Character Animation. It takes you from the very fundamentals of animation and takes you all the way up to advanced character animation. It's not just for 3D animation either. You can do you assignments in 2D, stop-motion, etc.

Each term you are assigned to a mentor who basically mentors you throughout that term. You upload your assignment, then mentors and fellow students review your work and give suggestions and remarks on how to improve. These mentors are all working professionals in the industry. You're talking about people from ILM, Pixar, Sony Imageworks, Weta, etc.

The community at this school is amazing. Everybody and everything possible is set up to help the student succeed. Fellow students are constantly encouraging, critiquing each other's work. There are student gatherings where you can meet your classmates face-to-face. In other words, the community can't be beat.

If you are interested and want to read more go here - AnimationMentor.com