I know this quite well. If not for severely broken personal politics I probably would've ended up on the first season of "Mucha Lucha". Late last year I did some pick-up work on "Puffy Amy Yumi". I've done bits of work on pilots for new Flash shows that didn't get picked up. On one of these, I later got told that every scene that people felt compelled to speak well of the animation was one I did.
The Flash lead on "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" got a lot of his initial training under me. At one point I considered trying to get in touch and ask him for a job, but those personal politics were definitely one reason for not doing this. Old bitternesses.
I hate Flash. I can't look at any show done in it without wincing. I hate wrestling with its horrible interface. The production methods I'm used to don't involve me ever drawing, just pushing other people's art around. It's not something I enjoy in the least; it never pushes the "bringing things to life" button inside me that's what I wanted to get into animation to push in the first place.
If, say, one of Gabe and Ricky' pitches, or Jorge's, got picked up and they sent me e-mail offering me work, I might go back down to LA and try to have it be "just a job" for a season or three. But my distaste for the whole process and for all the final results is strong. I can barely look at anything in my reel without wincing at the... Flashiness.
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Date: 2005-04-28 03:09 pm (UTC)The Flash lead on "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" got a lot of his initial training under me. At one point I considered trying to get in touch and ask him for a job, but those personal politics were definitely one reason for not doing this. Old bitternesses.
I hate Flash. I can't look at any show done in it without wincing. I hate wrestling with its horrible interface. The production methods I'm used to don't involve me ever drawing, just pushing other people's art around. It's not something I enjoy in the least; it never pushes the "bringing things to life" button inside me that's what I wanted to get into animation to push in the first place.
If, say, one of Gabe and Ricky' pitches, or Jorge's, got picked up and they sent me e-mail offering me work, I might go back down to LA and try to have it be "just a job" for a season or three. But my distaste for the whole process and for all the final results is strong. I can barely look at anything in my reel without wincing at the... Flashiness.