Pixar Career Essay

Large animating companies such as Pixar may have fooled you into thinking animation is an easy art, but it is truly not. Animating is a painfully slow progress that constantly disappoints you with its extremely time consuming needs for a, once thought, easily accomplished scene in a movie you wanted. Creating animations may bestow life unto the ideas and characters living inside of your head, but it is all in exchange for your own sanity--especially when you animate alone.

Animating by one’s self is absoluting dreadful, as it takes up an unmeasurable amount of time and steals an awful amount of one's soul. I had past experience of such on the Adobe program, PhotoShop. The careful frame-by-frame movements of my fictitious character had taken me hours to complete, but the animated feature was a shockingly short fifteen seconds long. It was surprising to see how hours of work, an approximated 48 full hours, had amounted to a roughly sketched film short of such small proportions. It was disheartening. It absolutely destroyed any aspirations I had at the time of becoming any sort of animator; for any company--whether it be Pixar, Disney, or

Creating a rough draft, the storyboard, will be an easy accomplishment--the same for okaying it with yourself, as there is no one to please besides yourself. Compiling a cast of people willing to fill in as amateur voice actors can be a problem, but friends may fill the positions. The voices may come out quite, static-y, or much to loud with the meager recording instruments possessed by the solo animator. As the rough sketches of the characters most likely exist already inside of the producer of said animation, it can also become a problem of the voices not going well together with the images stored in their head. This can cause a snag in the animating process. Now to the most disheartening bit of this strenuous