WooHoo! Bobby's webinar was fun

Last night I attended Bobby's webinar and heard him talk about AnimationMentor.com. He told us how he, Shawn and Carlos came up with the idea and what prospects AM offers to the students. Can you believe that the placement rate of AM worldwide is a whopping 80%? Wow! That's amazing, isn't it?

He also interviewed Aja Bogdanoff who told us about some of her experiences with AM and how the AM experience helped her improve her work. So far, she has worked on Coca-Cola's movies, Horton Hears A Who and is presently working on Open Season II with Reel FX.

Bobby's energy levels were amazingly high (nothing new there :) ) and his sound effects were hilarious. He makes these funny sounds like those from a kid's cartoon when he is reading something on the screen. All-in-all, it was a great session.

By the way, in case you are interested in joining AM or knowing more about it, visit www.AnimationMentor.com. There's a special discount offer for the Summer Term that can be availed at www.AnimationMentor.com/apply/apply.html

So, check it out guys!

Last week before the wait is over

We started with the Maya Springboard Workshop on March 31st, 2008 and so far have been introduced to the various features on AM's website each week. Although it is exciting to meet all these cool people and to get to know them, the wait for some real action is killing. The good news is that now that we are in week 5, our classes begin next week. Yay!!

It appears I am one of the very few people in my class with almost no exposure to animation before and will have to really crank up my efforts just to be able to catch up with them. I have started feeling my way around Maya's UI, following the Learning Maya 8 Foundation book and am loving the different things that I am already able to do.

I have made some very good friends on AM in the last 4 weeks, who I intend to work with during the duration of the course and maybe later too :) So we have a nice group thing going. The way AM works is by placing us under the wings of an Animation expert who is working in the animation industry and they act as our mentors guiding us in the right direction. We get to work with 6 different mentors over the 18 month course (7 mentors for me since I opted for Maya Springboard Workshop as well.) My very first mentor is Aja Bogdanoff who was part of the team that worked on Horton Hears A Who and will be featured in Bobby Beck's webinar tonight (April, 30th.) It's a must watch and I'll advise you guys to try and attend it if possible. Bobby's a really great guy, very enthusiastic and very friendly. Yes, you can tell just by watching him speak about animation :)

Boy, I am so excited and eager to begin learning some animation!!