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"Hire the heart, train the hand."
When I started on Regular Show, my drawings were atrocious and I knew NO storyboard rules. They accepted that, because I was a good person and I could write well, so they could teach me to draw the way they needed.
This was from my first board: https://twitter.com/dgollamaart/status/1338631713275129856
When I started on Regular Show, my drawings were atrocious and I knew NO storyboard rules. They accepted that, because I was a good person and I could write well, so they could teach me to draw the way they needed.
This was from my first board: https://twitter.com/dgollamaart/status/1338631713275129856
I *did* have the ability to draw better than this, FYI, I'd been drawing my whole life. It's just that my understanding of it on a professional level was completely off base, I didn't know storyboarding, and also had 0 experience drawing someone else's characters in their style.
My biggest challenges were learning storyboarding rules, what storyboarding is for, how it works in a production setting, expectation levels, how to compose in a way that works for animation, how to draw someone else's characters, etc etc. However, all of that can be trained.
That's why whenever we hired someone on #infinitytrain, we specifically tried to hire one person who was more experienced, and one who wasn't, so we could have the stability of the experienced person teach the less (or not at all) experienced other person. Lifting others.
We tried to keep it about 1:1 or at most 1:2 experienced to not as experienced. We also tried (though didn't always succeed) in making sure all the weight of teaching that person didn't fall on the more experienced person and Maddie and I would try to help out ourselves.
As a couple replies pointed out, this experience is also far from the norm, especially if you aren't some white dude who was recommended by a friend. The post was asking about the best art advice I'd gotten, and it's still a method I use to hire people, so I thought I'd say it.
