I wanted to take a moment to speak about Animation Mentor.

I know I don't post often to this thing, though I suppose that's a good thing, it means I'm busy animating. Earlier tonight I was talking to one of my friends from Animation Mentor, Alexiss Memmott, and she brought up just how much she loved AM, which is actually something we talk about fairly often. I think on the surface people see the awesome mentors that are there, and they see the truly amazing rigs that we're given to use, but what they don't see is the community. The greater majority of the people at AM are beyond passionate about animation. Not only that though, they're beyond passionate about helping their fellow students. There's an energy at AM that goes beyond the 1's and 0's that flow through the main thousands of miles connecting all of us, and permeates everything about the site. In my life it's been rare to see a group of people so dedicated, passionate, and energetic all about the same thing. I was amazed during my first few weeks there during class 1, and I am continually amazed as I finish up class 2.

With that said I wanted to give a thanks to Bobby, Shawn, and Carlos for creating AM, I also wanted to thank Leif Jeffers and Nick Bruno for opening up my eyes and showing me that I had so much more to learn. Of course I also have to thank all my friends at AM which there's far too many to list here. I don't know if anyone reading this has ever had a dream that they've pursued for the majority of their life, but when you finally get to a point where you begin to see the piece of that dream come together, there's no greater feeling in the world.




*Side Note*
This post was written at almost 4 am, I've been awake for almost a good 20 hours at this point (doing 2 schools at once will do that to you) so if it doesn't make any sense I apologize. Though no one reads this blog anyway so I don't think it'll make all that much of a difference.