Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Have Fun: There's no harm in pure entertainment!

I just wanted to give a quick note on animation.  It's Supposed To Be Fun!  Anyone who gets into this field does it because they enjoy doing, so I say there's no harm in creating stupid shorts that can be solely for pure entertainment value.  Life's to short, so live, laugh, animate and enjoy it all.

I only say this, because I feel that it is too easy to get wrapped up in the commercial mentality or the artistic nature of giving meaning to everything we create.  Instead, I propose what some friends and I did which was have an animation night.  Get together with some friends, sit down, and animate a stupid scenario for 20-30 minutes tops.  It's fun and stupid and gets back to the true nature of why most of us decided to become animators.

I leave you with this thought and wish you good times animating.