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I want to start learning how to do animation. I'm serious.
>Where should I start if I want to learn how to animate for film, or movies etc?
>What I know if I want to learn how to animate for the sake of employment?
>Are there any special classes I could take to do or help me with this in college; maybe give me reason to still slog through it all?
>What programs should I start out with when we're talking about animating things similar to the MMD style videos you see on Youtube?
>What are some other programs like Poser Pro?
>What are some concerns I should be worried about if I'm going into animation?
I've had experience with things like Autodesk Inventor and I did quite a few projects with it; some have even impressed my old teachers and students, but that's not the kind of animation I want; it feels lifeless and people use it for engineering.
I'm dropping out of college to chase after an old childhood dream. I know this looks like a really juvenile thing to do, but I'm 20 now, and I'm getting nowhere with my life. I haven't told my parents, but I'm about to. They'll probably ridicule the shit out of my decision, but I don't care.
Yes, I've accepted the fact that this is a foolish and needless pursuit to risk my future over, but I'm absolutely fucking tired of studying for a future that I don't know exists.
I'm actually a great student. The thing is though, the very reason why I was able to keep up with my work and do the things I needed to do, was because I had no idea as to what I wanted to do in the future. I thought that if I just worked hard, eventually it would come to me when I became an adult.
Well, here I am. 20 years old, and about to drop everything for the very same reason.
Honestly, I'm pretty terrified of what they might tell me. I've already stopped talking to them despite living in the same house as them, and this is going to be the first thing I've ever said in months, so you can imagine how awkward this will be.
But I want to escape.
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You need to decide a kind of animation to pursue. (frame by frame, motion comic, 3D, traditional, digital, etc.)
In the meantime, there's books you should study like "The Animator's Survival Kit". There's also good stuff on youtube, there's tutorials everywhere. Utilize them.
The best way to learn to do animation is to start doing it. You don't have to go to a school for it but you do have to have enough motivation to keep pushing yourself to work and improve. Study, practice, watch good animation and dissect how they do it, learn how the pros do it and adapt it to what you want to do.
If you want to do anything for yourself you're also going to have to practice drawing. I suggest going to /ic/, they have a useful sticky and can give you more resources.
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Also, don't drop out of college to pursue this. Practice it on the sidelines and see if there's college courses you can take. Yes dropping out of college will give you more time to work but that's also a huge risk and a foolhardy one to take. If the animation falls through, you are going to regret wasting college while you had it.
Take it form someone who does art as work, it is damn hard to support yourself with it and impossible to do so when you haven't built a platform. That old adage about keeping your day job is a good one, because before you can live as an artist you have to survive as an individual.
Hang in there, keep studying, sneak animation in wherever you can. Once you graduate you'll have more time to work on it, and you'll have a way to support yourself while you do it.
Then, as you improve and start to market yourself as an artist, you can ease yourself into the animation, art, and freelancing life. This method is tried and true and it -works-. Especially now where you have things like Patreon to help provide income.
But before you can depend on your art for income, you need the skill you develop through practice, and you need the audience you develop through creating content. But of these are readily achievable but they do not happen immediately. I understand the desire to drop everything and I know that doing both work and art is difficult. But it's the people who can push through that who survive.
If you have any other questions, I'll hang around and try to help.
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Are you familiar with a program called Poser Pro? How can I approach learning how to use such a thing? Is it difficult? Do I need prior knowledge of certain things beforehand?
Also, is there a certain major I could follow that would help me in this animation pursuit? I'm currently a pre-pharmacy major, and I absolutely despite every second of it. I would rather die than waste away handing pills to someone for the rest of my life.
I'm a huge fan of some of the things done with that particular program. I think it was Monty Oum who made it as renowned as it is now. I remember looking at his work as a kid, and just feeling this chill of...liveliness go through my spine, seeing the characters darts around the screen and doing movie-like feats that I wouldn't ever have thought to make a fanwork of. I looked up to him.
Is it too late for me to strive to be like him? I know I don't really know much about what it means to be an adult and worrying the future, but I think its chasing after little things like this that makes life what it is.
I really don't want to give this up.
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Does anyone on here have experience having a "record"? If you get into serious trouble (police were involved) when you were a junior in high school , will employers be able to see it?
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As long as you didn't do long period jail (over 6 months) you'll be fine.
It will depend on your employer though.
t. Guy who didn't take public transportation...
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I didn't go to jail , I was sent to a mental hospital of sorts for a bit.
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Well i don't thing he'll be able to see it. Especially since it's from Junior high
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Alright /adv/, straight off the bat: yeah, this is yet another problem about a girl. My issue is that she confuses the crap outta me.
A little backstory: A buddy and I had this sorta immature "rivalry", I suppose, with this landwhale, where we basically just slung insults at each other wheneve we saw her. She dragged around this cute goth-looking girl since she didnt have many friends, and when the landwhale inevitably disappeared from our lives, this goth girl ended up in the same social group as my friend and I because we were so used to seeing her around.
Now, because me and this guy tended to not only insult others but each other, there'd often be a few things being said that seemed a bit harsh to people listening in. This girl wasnt too keen on me for a bit because of some shit I said (can't even remember what), but I explained what the friendship is like between me and the other guy, and things seemed alright.
Whenever I see the goth girl now though, she sorta flirts with me, but in that sort of teasing way where it's intended to wind someone up with pet nicknames and the like.
My concern is that this has gone on for MONTHS now; hell, she even asked said guy's girlfriend for my snapchat name. I'm not sure anymore whether this is simply her carrying on the joke, or if there's genuine interest there, and i'm really not keen on asking since it'd backfire massively if she isnt. A few people say its the joke, a few others including my buddy say they think she might be into me. Wat do, /adv/?
>tl;dr unsure if a girl is messing with me for a joke or if she's actually interested.
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OP here again. Little more info for those interested: she'll stick with the nicknames and so on even if there isnt anybody there to witness it. I speak to her occasionally on messenger since she's pretty much the only person up as late as I am most nights, and the tone is generally very sarcastic. She'll send some stupid gif about love, i'll send back an autistic gif i've saved from /b/ or somewhere, and it'll escalate from there. It's simply the persistence knocking my confidence in her intentions.
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Shameless self-bump.
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only one way to find out, friend
Anyone overcome their depression and anxiety? I typically have the hardest time with motivation and energy, despite improving diet, medicating, etc. Anxiety attacks aren't as bad as they used to be, but because I only get them around my girlfriend I worry she will one day get tired of my mental issue popping up time to time.
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Sometimes if I manage to wake up, get showered, and leave the house early enough in the day, I'll take an adderall and will spend the day at the library looking for a job. But often I wait too long into the day to get started and end up wasting the whole day.
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Adderall likely wouldn't help me especially since stimulants can make anxiety worse. Sorry to hear about your issues as well.
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OP I had severe OCD for a couple years and it fucked with me for most of college but I learned to control it and fight back. I still have moments where I let it get to me but I'm doing better. Keep your head up and think about what you can do every day to improve your lifestyle. It doesn't happen right away, it starts with baby steps on the way to improving.
Anything specific you want to ask?
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I need to get a dent in the back of my car fixed. I accidently fucking backed up into another car in while I was at walmart. The other car was fine, but my car has a large dent maybe the size of a melon. I can't afford fixing it myself because I'm a piece of shit who doesn't have a job. How much do car fixes like this even cost? I absolutely can't let my parents see this dent because it has happened before. I wonder if I could sell some shit on ebay or something. But right now I'm just looking for some DIY repair shit. I bought a dent plunger from walmart and it.. just won't sit on the dent like its supposed to... Any help would be appreciated.
it's like pic related, but no scratches or anything.
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Prius?
Fag.
Anyhow, you gotta get behind that thing and pop it out. It's plastic, not a dent in the traditional sense. I don't know jack about that bumper, but most cars you can get them off or at least loosen one side enough to get behind it. Then you just push or hammer it out. It won't look normal, and there may be funky creasing around it, but it will look better from a distance. Sooner the better though, cause the longer the plastic sits like that, the harder it will be to get it pushed out to it's original shape.
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>it's like pic related
I don't own a fucking prius, anon-kun..
Tell me about bumpers though. I can get behind the bumper, but my arms aren't long enough to reach it...
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This. You'll have to pull the whole bumper cover, there is a steel brace inside attached to the frame horns that will have a piece of dense foam over it. These will be in your way, so easier to pull the cover off. Prbably some phillip's heads in the wheelwell and a ten mm hidden near the back of the headlight somewhere. Phillip's heads, 10 mm's and plastic pushpins will probably greet you along the bottom of the cover and around the grill under the hood along the core support. Just pull hardware until you can pull the cover away from the car enough to get to it. You may not have to remove the whole cover. And I don't know your make/model/year but this setup is becoming industry standard. Unless Benz or something.
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i like a girl; i'm quite sure that she likes me too.
what's the next step?
(i'm a guy btw)
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Asking her out is a pretty decent start.
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Ask her to "hang out" and be as ambiguous as you possibly can about it. If she asks what you want to do just say "I don't know, hang out I guess?"
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>>16913336
this is way too passive and beta, a great way to end up in the friendzone and quickly become her shopping buddy
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Long story short: I was a "straight" guy that fell in love with another man. Our relationship Is probably the best one I've ever had, but sex is so frustrating and unsatisfying (he puts me on the bottom) that I don't know what to do. Sex isn't everything I know. I jerking off a lot so I don't get tempted to cheat but is there any way to fix this? Pic related
>when he tells you just the tip
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Have you tried being the top? Are they at least jerking you during sex and giving head at other times? More information is helpful. In any case you should talk to your boyfriend about it, if they don't know that there is a problem then it will probably never be resolved. They might be more willing to work out a compromise than you think and if not then that's the real issue.
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Please seek help
Therapy is good
God is good
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>>16913308
Topkek motherfucker
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Am I making the correct choice?
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So I'm going to turn down much higher paying jobs with benefits and higher prestige to take a job test water for pollution and bacteria.
Just to give you an idea of the jobs I'm turning down they're mostly lab tech jobs from huge companies like Melendez and Givaudan that pay somewhere between 36-50 thousand for a job that pays 13 an hour and will be part time until May and I could possibly lose my job in October.
Part of the reason I'm doing this is that it's a very small company, like they had to hire six people just to start this project, I can see that they're having organic growth and they're pretty much much tripling every year, and I also feel like this, environmental work, is something that I deeply care about.
I'm currently sitting on about 13 grand in savings and my student loans won't even come into play until next January and seeing as I live at home and how easy it was to get most of these jobs I don't really see a downside, other than less money, for taking these jobs. My parents haven't tried to talk me out of it either.
I just want to make sure I'm not absolutely crazy for turning down opportunities at these other jobs. I had a job for a short time working as a lab tech at a genetic company and I couldn't stand it as I felt like what I was doing didn't matter. I feel like I'd have the same feeling at these other companies as they're food and fragrance companies and that's not something I'm particular passionate about.
tl;dr I'm passing on much higher paying jobs to take a lower paying one because I'd like it more and would be passionate about it. Am I stupid for doing this?
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bump
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No one can really answer this for you. You decide.
With 13k in savings you could start investing. That's what I'd do in your position. Take the low paying job and invest to start growing your wealth.
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If you didn't like working at BigCo before then yeah, why not. Being able to work for something you believe in definitely helps one sleep at night.
Do it while you're young and without obligations. And make sure you have a job lined up if it looks like things are going south.
I'm at a point where I'm choosing which career I'm going to be sticking with and won't have a good second chance with whatever I don't take. Its easily the hardest decision I've ever had to make. Basically it's between a really secure long term IT Tech role and a risk at entry into Youth Work.
I don't have a degree and the IT role wouldn't change that. But it's a pretty damn rock solid secure long term position with great experience and flexibility and fantastic access to all sorts of industry certifications which in IT tech roles are vastly more valuable than academic qualifications. IT is something I've always been comfortable with so its in my comfort zone although not something I'm strictly all that passionate about.
The Youth Work route means a lot of risk and effort, 4 years of combined work and study and a big ol' pile of student loan debt, but I would get a degree. I've been volunteering with a youth work organisation for a number of months and found that I quite enjoy it and am better at it than I thought I'd be. Reality is though it's something I do once a week, not a full time role. It's also in a pretty easy going area with a main focus on homelessness and unemployment rather than something intense like inner city gang youth(which I could end up having to work with if I go down this route). I don't really know if I'm cut out for Youth support work full time. I mean I'm an understanding, accepting person who is good at supporting people which is a plus. But I'm also a fairly introverted nerd that lives with his parents and has been browsing 4chan for 10 years, I'm far from the most worldly of people out there and I can be pretty awkward in new social situations before I become used to them. I don't know that I'm really cut out to be a role model, advisor and leader for young people. It seems like a really great cause but it's a lot of risk for something that seems so incompatible with my nature despite my successes as a volunteer.
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I appreciate that it's not something other people can really give me the right answer to. But I wanted to throw it out there partly to help gather my thoughts but also to see if other people have perspective on the area that I don't.
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You can still volunteer without a degree and do low risk things (which is what seems to be what you're after)
I'd take the IT job. Security for yourself, and you are fine and able to do part time volunteering as well whenever you want. Hell, if you get really into it, you can save up cash from your IT job and start your own volunteer thing that specializes in [choose your topic].
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I think I'm really losing it and I'm afraid of what I migjt do
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75% of /adv/ posts are either b8 or really fuvking vague posts.
What the hell are you trying to say
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>>16913259
So go to a hospital or call an ambulance.
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I may be bipolar or cyclothymic. Waiting for a specialist appointment but it may be up to three months
I've just been stuck in this circle of highs and lows for so long now, years I feel stuck. It's frustating to have all this emergy during the highs knowing that I'm going to have to start over later when I inedivably undo my progress during tghe plundge. Some real sisyphus shit and I hope I can get treated fast or I'm going to something rash just to have SOMETHING happen. I'm not even talking about killing myself, so I'm not even sure what but the impulse is there
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so I found out I have a brother I didn't know about
my dad was a deadbeat that got mixed up in drugs and died when I was a kid, today I learn I have a younger brother that is around my age
I don't really want to meet him, totes not interested in forming a relationship with him however I do want to spy on him and see if he is
1. more attractive than me
2. more successful than me
how do? should I even bother?
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I found out I had a brother when I was 29. I also found out that my mom tried to contact him and he told her to fuck off. My sister contacted him and has a relationship with him. I essentially decided I didn't give a shit, and I still don't. He lives in my city.
Don't bother.
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>>16913283
in my case it is likely we may have even gone to the same highschool
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lolol why do men suck so much? Putrid deadbeats
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My sister likes me way more than I like her. Like way more. I barely even acknowledge her but she loves me more than she loves our mom, wants to move out and take me to live with her, always tries to bond with me over movies and series and stupid girl stuff but honestly I have none of it and I hate being around her.
And the reason is because my sister is genuinely mentally unstable. She was abused as a child and now she has a huge victim complex. She thinks the world owes her something. She thinks it's cute to be almost 30 and yet so incredibly immature and childish.
She gets pissed at even the mention of going to a therapist or a psychiatrist. And also she's kind of becoming an alcoholic. All in all she's a shitty person to be around and I can't stand her.
The reason she loves me so much is because when I was younger I wasn't so fed up with her shit yet so I always tried to help her. She didn't give a shit about me helping her back then mind you, and would always lash out at me, which was part of the reason I decided to say fuck it and stop caring about her. But now it seems like her mind is stuck in the past and she thinks I still like her like I did when I was 12. And I can't stand it. I don't have it in me to just tell her to fuck off because she tried to kill herself before over really petty shit, like a fight with a cousin or a comment about her clothes, so I can't even imagine what the fuck that bitch would do if she knew the only person she believes cares for her actually hates her. So what the fuck do I do?
Help me /adv/ I feel stuck.
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Honestly I think the reason I feel stuck is because I am stuck. Having mentally ill people who refuse treatment in your family often ends like this. They either become a burden and weight you down or you don't let them be part of your life anymore and become that asshole who abandoned their mentally ill sibling. Shit.
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bang her dude
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I turned 18 today. Any advice you can give to an aspy beta that he can carry on for the rest of his life?
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>>16913216
Advice on what?
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>>16913221
Really just anything. Preferably relationships since I've never had one and can't think of anyone to get in one with
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>>16913216
Make sure you stick your dick in some young pussy while you can. It's harder to get the young stuff as you get older. Be safe, of course.
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I have a friend who is good-looking, thin, smart, funny, she cooks, cleans, and has hobbies and activities. She's 29, has a good job, and lives alone.
We've both had some shitty relationship luck over the years, and have dealt with some very damaging people. But she always complains about how she's hideous, and a fat whale, and she's so disgusting that no one will ever want her. Some body dysmorphia I guess...? Even though we wear the same size, and she says I'm tiny. She says no guy will even look at her, and she's just going to die alone, she's worthless and deserves it, etc.
Here's the kicker though- there's been multiple decent dudes interested in her, and she's turned them all down. He looks like he has Downs! He has no chin! He's too short! etc. If I honestly thought of myself as terribly as she does, the last thing I'd want is to date some Adonis. She also complains that I always seem to have someone, and she never does. However I......... have literally turned no one down for the most part when I'm single.
It's just getting frustrating and there's NO logic that seems to get through to her. Does anyone know anyone like this? How do you deal with it, or do you not bother?
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I'm like her I guess.
Late 20s, does things like that. Single.
I don't believe in compromise. I've dated lots of people I got off "kinda ok" with, but I turned them down.
So what you want?
To date her? Or to get her a date she wants?
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>>16913200
There's a difference between "not settling" and being kind of nutty about it. I doubt you think you're disgusting and unworthy of love, yet find so many others that you're not interested in, especially based on looks.
I'm straight, so I definitely don't want to date her myself. And I don't think her dating a guy will really fix this underlying issue either... it's the whole thing of it.
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>>16913189
She has low self esteem or body issues and unrealistically high standards.
Those are common problems, and you can't fix them. She can, if she wants to.
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How easy is it to decapitate oneself by placing their head on a train track? Where I live, a train passes by every couple of minutes, or so it seems. However, with the train I am thinking of, it has a lot of stuff in the front that would prevent me from having a very painless death. Another disadvantage is that just merely waiting for the train will build up anxiety, and so that might cause me to abort my suicide plan. It is not a train that carries any passengers, so maybe that gives a clue about its average speed.
Can anyone give tips on how to decapitate oneself by using this method?
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Please respond
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Why this specific?
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Don't even, just don't.