@roxytoxy replied to your photoset “While I’m at it, some doodles from workin on Dogstar!

Can you do the other characters from the show? :D I’d love to how they look like in your style.

I have got a few little sketches of Hobart and Alice that I doodled while working, along with another pile of Gemma and Daina ^^’ (these are from about a year ago)

unclerazzhead replied to your post :Do you have any tips with starting

   Would you recommend College (besides for the beneficial free/provided programs they have) cause the community college i go to doesnt offer animation but their OTHER location does, but they’re on the other side of town and heh I can’t drive(in general)to go out there. (also Texas just isn’t a good place for artists honestly)    

Hmm, I’ve covered bits of that here and here (question4). It varies, for some it’s really useful, for others it’s a waste. You can learn a lot on your own, but it does help to have a network of some kind made of up people with differing interests to your own.

(sorry, I realised that I’ve kind of rambled on a bit…sorry)

The main benefits I found to university was someone to explain new things, peers to provide feedback, and time to make my own work. It’s possible to get these things without additional schooling. I’d say peer network is the most important, specifically with people who have different tastes to your own so you’re not being fed the same information. I personally prefer having people in person, but if you have a good online network or know professionals that like giving feedback that’s good too!

What kind of work has come out of the college? what things specifically do they teach? what do previous students say? if they’re teaching stuff you already know, or others found it unhelpful then it may be worth going at it independently. But if feedback is good, and there are new things to learn it may be worth it. Look more at student feedback than the quality of work that’s come out, someone with a lot of skill can take a bad class and create something good on their own, similarly someone might make something that looks unpolished but has actually learned a lot! So if you do look at their work, look more at the programs/tools/techniques they teach.

Every school is different, so I can’t really say. Personally I found my university quite good, in contrast my highschool had an animation class that was so useless doing virtually anything else would have been better.

I live in approx 40min walking distance and 20min tram distance of the university I attended. There were a few people in my year that lived 1-2 hours away by train, some of them worked from home and only attended vital classes, the trade off being that they needed to buy all of their own programs and equipment.

So…yeah, I guess weigh up the pros and cons and go off that? sorry, rambled on with not much point ^^’