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Know where you stand.

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hi :) this will be my first BLOG AWARDS yay

Rules→

• must be following me (this is for my lovely followers)
• must reblog not like :) 
• you can be any time of blog, really.
• deadline: Monday, May 27, 2013
• one winner- two runner ups for each category.

Categories→

• Best URL
• Best icon
• Best theme
• Best sidebar
• Best creations (edits/gifs)
• Best overall
• Best person <3 

Prizes→

• PROMO TO 13,200+ followers multiple times
• Follow from me (wow exciting) 
• Spot on my blog  
• Muhh fuckin bragging rights 

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Altered Books and Sculptural Artist’s Books by Curt Lund

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Tomb Raider facts

Omg whoever made these I love you. 

100% ACCURATE

Motion to get rid of Chuck Norris jokes and replace them with Lara Croft jokes

I support all of this.

My inner ten year old is screaming with joy.

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From Anthony Holden!

anthonyholden:

What are studios looking for? How can I get into a good animation school? What should I be studying?

I get a lot of these types of questions now and again, and I never know how to answer them. I can’t be sure of what studios are looking for, I don’t control admissions policies to schools, and I have little idea what makes for a current and relevant curriculum. There are a lot of variables in your bid for a career in animation, and it’s kind of impossible to control most of them. You must be crazy to want this job!

I find it helpful to focus on the things I can control. Among those things are your study habits and how you spend your personal time. It’s good to work hard and have goals—without them we would get nowhere. Study hard and make decisive strides towards achieving your art goals. But in the heat of that pursuit, don’t forget to go out and live your life!

If you spend any amount of time looking at artists online, you’ve probably figured out by now that there are about a million dudes and dudettes in internetville who draw better than you (I relive this realization daily). Once your have done your best to rise to their level, the only tool you have to compete with these crazy talents is your background, your personal character—is you!

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

I know this advice is not particularly animation-specific, but maybe that’s for the best. At any rate, it is something I feel strongly about. Animation is great, and there are few things that I enjoy doing more than drawing and storytelling. But in order to have stories to tell, first you have to live them.

Be good, and see you soon!

PS, if you were looking for advice on draftsmanship you should probably be reading this.

This is the best advice for any student or hopeful student. Having lived your life watching cartoons and drawing in your room won’t help you to make stories that involve doing much. I’m a total homebody, but doing things that force you to experience life in different ways is key. So just go to a new place, talk to the weird guy on the street, try a new food, whatever. It will enrich your life and the stories you tell.

you really know how to cut to the core of me, baxter

you’re so wise…. like a miniature buddha, covered in hair

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