The Animation Minute

Good afternoon.

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful month and that everybody enjoyed the last few weeks.

Since it is almost Easter, I thought to make a post on the site.

I would first like to share the information on The Animation Minute, which is a video series on YouTube that showcases all the news within the animation industry and even information on new jobs and demo reels. The videos are created by an animator, animation director, and teacher who had worked at Nickelodeon, Warner Brothers, and is currently working at Blizzard Entertainment. I try to watch his videos on YouTube whenever I get the chance and they always seem to be filled with useful information and important knowledge about the industry.

Here is the link to the video on YouTube.

And here is the link to the latest video.

In other news, I was looking through several pages on LinkedIn and came across a post from a company that were looking to hire new talent. I don’t think that would be a good fit for these new positions, but I thought to share the link in case anyone else wanted to apply to them.

Here is the link to the post.

I believe that is all I have to repost for today.

In case I end up not making another post in the next week or two, I wish everyone a happy Easter.

Animation Jobs and Internships

Good morning.

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful week.

I just wanted to share some more information that I’ve discovered.

I recently discovered that Cartoon Network Studios (which are the creators of some of my favorite cartoon television shows) and Warner Brothers Discovery in Burbank, California are hiring for a handful of new internship positions for the summer. I just came across these new positions while looking through Instagram the other day. Afterwards, I headed to the Cartoon Network Studios homepage on LinkedIn to learn about them.

One of the programs that they had looked very interesting and very much aligned my personal career goals, so I applied to it. Many of the programs was located in Burbank, California, so I may not be selected to join it, but I thought to still apply for it anyways. Who knows? Maybe there will be a way for me to participate in the internship even though I live in New York City. Since this program and many of the others will take place in the summer, maybe I can find a way to stay with some relatives in California until the end of the program and I can return to New York.

For anyone interested in learning more about the internships that the company is hiring for, here is the link to the page on LinkedIn.

Also, here is a link to Warner Brothers Discovery’s list of other internships and job opportunities.

There is another internship opportunity that will take place in the summer.

I am considering taking part in a study abroad program at my university in which we travel to the United Kingdom for about three weeks, but if it turns out that I can’t be a part of that program, then there is another opportunity that I am very interested in.

I found out about this opportunity while looking at a website that lists many different animation jobs and internships from around the world. You can find the site here.

The internship program will be in France during the Annecy Festival, and it will be about a week or so long. It will include breakfast, dinner, pickups and drop-offs to the airport, and a tour of the whole festival. There will be a virtual information session where more information about the internship will be shared, and I am planning on joining so that I can learn more. It may turn out that I will have to pay for my own plane tickets, but depending on how the program works and the total cost of it, that maybe won’t be a huge problem. It would definably be worth it if I got the chance to travel to another country and meet other artists in the field.

You can follow this link and read about the program for yourselves if you want.

That is all I have to report for today.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful morning and a great rest of the day.

November 2023

Good morning,

I hope that everyone is having a pleasant morning so far.

I wasn’t going to write anything today, but then I thought that it would be fun to post a short update.

You may already know that November is the month in which I was born and that my birthday is at the end of the month. I will be 27 years old. I’m not sure what we will be doing for my birthday, but I’m sure that we will think of something for all of us to do. My mother always wants to do something fun for my birthday. We may end up having a dinner party with a few of our friends. A good friend of mine is also having a birthday coming up at the end of the month. Her birthday is actually a day after my birthday, so we usually celebrate our birthdays at around the same time.

Before I go, I have something that I wanted to share. Here is the animation that I wanted to share with you on Halloween. I tried to upload it onto Tumblr but for some reason it wouldn’t upload properly. So, I’m putting it here. Please excuse the picture quality; it actually looks much better than this.

Global Competition

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope that everyone is doing well.

I apologize for not writing anything in the past couple of weeks. I wanted to write something on Valentine’s Day, but I became so busy with schoolwork and other things that I couldn’t find the time to write on the site.

I thought that I should write something now because I have something great to share with everything.

You may remember that I wrote about entering some of my artwork into a global competition. Earlier today, I got an email, and it looks like most of my pieces won. I mean, they didn’t win first place, but they were some of the runners-up and that, I think, is just amazing.

I was surprised because I thought that the winners won’t be announced until the start of March; I was not expecting to get an email saying that I won today. I was also surprised to see that most of my pieces won in the contest. I was honestly hoping that I would win with at least one of the pieces that I submitted into the contest. Instead, almost all of the pieces that I submitted won a place in the contest, which I thought was really surprising, but also great.

Here are the pieces that I entered into the competition that won:

I thought that I should share this with everyone here. I am so glad that my artwork won in this contest. I was having a few doubts about winning anything, but now I feel glad that I decided to enter my art in this contest.

Allow me to thank everyone for their support over the years. I don’t think that I would have even thought about doing this if it wasn’t for you.

In any case, I think that I should end this post here so that I can get to work on my other art projects.

I will write again soon, but until then, I hope that everyone has a wonderful day.

Lunar New Year

Good morning everyone.

Today is the 22nd of January, which is also the Lunar New Year, and I thought that I should post something to mark the occasion.

I also wanted to say hello and give a quick update on my week.

I hope that everyone had a good week and a good weekend. I’ve spent most of last week doing some work that I needed to get done. I managed to get most of the art supplies that I will need for the spring semester. I was also able to get clean my bedroom a bit better; at least now it feels less crowded with stuff. I think that the most helpful thing was the storage boxes that I brought to put in my closest. Those boxes were very handy; I feel like I can organize my closest a bit better. There are still a few things that I need to get done before the start of the spring semester, but at least I got most of the stuff got of the way.

I’ve also done a lot of drawing this week. I got some ideas for some new designs and art, and I’ve been trying to find the time to put them on paper. There are still a lot of other pieces that I want to create, but I think that I’ve made a good start. I was even able to enter some of my artwork in that contest that I wrote about in my last post.

I don’t want to show off what I’ve made until after the contest is over and the winners had been announced, which should be after the first of March.

Here are a few of the other drawings that I’ve made, along with a few other pieces that I don’t think that I shared on this site before:

I also wanted to show the pictures and video that I took while at the “Beyond King Tut” Exhibit in November since I had been meaning to show it here. Since I can’t upload them here at the moment, here is the link to my Instagram page, where I’ve post them: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cll85vgLUya/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link.

I think that is all I have to share for today. I should get going anyways; my mom has special plans for the family today.

I hope that everyone enjoys the Lunar New Year, and I will write again at a later date.

First Post of 2023

Hello everyone.

I hope that everyone had a wonderful New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

I am so excited to make my first post in 2023.

The year, so far, had been great for me.

My mom, my stepdad, and I went to see a musical for my stepdad’s birthday. It was the Michael Jackson musical; my mom got us tickets because she thought that my stepdad would like it. He did enjoy it, and I enjoyed it too. I think the thing that I liked the most was the visual effects that they used for the performance. I also loved the singing, the dancing, and the performances of the actors and actresses.

That was a few weeks ago. Since then, I had been getting ready for my classes for the spring semester, which will start early in February. I am planning to get the supplies that I will need either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I still have a lot of time before the start of the semester, so at least I don’t feel rushed.

Speaking of which, I am glad to say that I am starting to draw more often. In fact, I am thinking about entering a contest for artists and designers. I already have two pieces that I want to use, and I am looking for others that I can enter into the contest. I would love to show them to you, but I still need to scan them to my computer. For the time being, here are a few of the other drawings that I was working on:

I have to get going now, so I will end this post here. I hope that you won’t mind if it is a bit short.

I also hope that everyone has a good rest of their day.

Summer Semester

Good afternoon everyone.

I know that it had been a long time since my last post. I hadn’t been writing on here because I had been preoccupied with schoolwork and projects. I’ve been so busy with school that I didn’t have time to post something on the site.

I am still busy with schoolwork, but I thought to take a few minutes to give an update.

School is going well. Since the classes are online, I can just read the course materials on my computer and send my art projects over the Internet. It makes it a little bit easier, but it is also hard to not to physically be in a classroom and talk to the professor with any questions or concerns that I had. I really think that I should go to the campus as soon as I can and take in-person classes. I just can’t decide when I can do that. Though, I think that I still have time to work out the details.

In other news, I am going to register for classes in the fall soon. I think that, by the time the fall semester starts, I can start to make the kind of animations that I want. The classes that I can taking now are great, but I am really eager to start creating state-of-the-art animations.

I think that is all I have to share now.

I hope that everyone has a lovely day.

Earth Day

Good afternoon, everyone.

I wanted to write something because today is Earth Day. I thought that I should give an update about what had happened in the past few days.

I don’t think that I’ve mentioned this before, but I went to a rock concert on Wednesday of last week with my mom. I got the tickets a week before and had planned on going with a friend, but when she was unable to come, my mom said that she would go with me. We got there an hour early and waited for the show to start.

It was great. The first band to play was an all-girls band called: Shallow Pools. Their songs were great, and I’ve enjoyed watching them play. After them was No Love For The Middle Child. You might had heard about them. They played one song that included a cello, which I thought was so amazing. When we went to buy some merchandise, we got to see the band members. I got my mom to speak with the lead singer; she talked about how she liked their songs, especially the one with the cello. After we got an autograph from the band members, we relaxed in the lounge for a bit; we had passes to the lounge area on the lower floor, so we were able to enter. We watched another band, Oxymoron, before we got to see Set It Off, which were who I really wanted to see. I just didn’t realize that there would be three other bands playing before them. I had been a big fan of their songs and had wanted to see them in concert ever since I heard that they would be in New York. Watching them in concert was even better than I thought it would be. I especially loved the part when the lead singer jumped in the crowd and the crowd carried him. We didn’t stay for long, but we did get to listen to most of the band.

I took some videos for the concert which I’ve posted on my page on Instagram.

That was the most exciting thing to had happened last week. Not a lot had happened his week, but I am going on a trip next week. By this time next Friday, I will be in Tarrytown with a lot of other girls. If I decide to bring my laptop, I may be able to write about the trip while I am there. This will be my first trip in Tarrytown, so I am excited. I haven’t been to a small town since my trip to Lee in Massachusetts. It will be nice to visit a quiet, small town again.

That is all I had to report for today.

I wish everyone a nice day and I hope you all have a great weekend.

Bowling

Good afternoon everyone.

I just wanted to say hello and let everyone know that I’m doing fine. I know that it had been a few weeks since my last update. I hadn’t been writing because, for the last two weeks, my mom and I had gone to a party to celebrate the birthday for a friend of ours. In fact, later today, we are going to go bowling with our friends.

I also wanted to share with you what I had been working on for the last few weeks.

I had been putting the finishing touches on a few animated videos for several days and now, they are complete. I’ve posted the videos on my Tumblr, Instagram, and LinkedIn amounts, but I thought that I should post them on my blog so that you are see it.

Here is one of the videos that I’ve had:

Time Bomb

If you want to see the other videos that I’ve made, you are free to visit my Tumblr, Instagram, or LinkedIn page. I would upload onto this post, but I can’t.

In any case, that was what I had been doing for the past couple of days.

I need to go now. I hope that everyone had a great weekend.

End of November

Good afternoon everyone.

Today is my 25th birthday.

My family and I are going to have a dinner party later; I am just relaxing until then.

I might write again later tonight to tell you how the party went; or, I might write tomorrow. Either way, I’ll tell you how the party went. My mom already gave me a gift. She got me a pair of bracelets, one of which had a pawprint on it. I think that she give me them because she knows how much I love animals.

I can’t wait to get to the party and celebrate with everyone.

That is not the only reason why I am writing this.

I wanted to share with you some of the artwork that I’ve made.

A few days ago, I tried to upload a GIF on a post. It was a short, animated GIF that I made. Unforunately, something went wrong and I couldn’t upload the GIF onto the post. I posted the GIF as a short video on LinkedIn so that other artists can see it.

If you want to see it too, you can follow this link: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6871299640147353600/.

I also upload the GIF to my account on Tumblr, in case you wanted to see it that way. I’ve also upload some of the other stuff that I’ve made on Tumblr. A lot of the stuff that I put on Tumblr is arts and crafts, but there are a few pieces of digital artwork on there. You may have already seen some of it before, but I’m sure that there are a few that you hadn’t seen before.

I think that I stop writing for now and get ready to go out.

I hope that everyone has a good night and I will talk to you later.