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Conker the bling

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Battle of the planets

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ka boom

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Carroll Spinney, above, is the puppeteer who plays Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. He did a reddit today, and his first answer is a tear jerker.

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Thanks Lex Design and Michael Novelo for the help! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tdPd9UhRtY https://vimeo.com/86581615

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hey guys i hate to do this but my mom really needs some help right now. my mom, my dad, and i are all working but we still can’t afford my mom’s chemo. it breaks my heart to see her sick and i’m selling pressed flower pendant necklaces to try and raise money for my mom’s treatment.

my mom has been through two abusive husbands, the abduction of her son, and multiple hate crimes, but shes STILL the strongest person i know. even when she’t at her sickest, she still makes us breakfast in the mornings and does everything she can for us. if there’s anyone that i know that deserves help right now, its her.

all of the necklaces pictured here are for sale. my prices will be very flexible, so just message me if you’re interested in purchasing any of these.

even if you can’t buy something, please reblog

edit: my shop is set up at orvix.storenvy.com!!

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sculpt of a skull

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♫ MY NAME IS YUUUKI, YUUUUKI,YUUUUKI♫ SHE IS SUCH A CUUUTIE, CUUUTIE, CUUUTIE♪♪♪

https://twitter.com/KenAshcorp

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Ribit Ribit

https://twitter.com/forosha?lang=en

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cHOO cHOO

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LARRY THE LITTLE FREAKIN KNIGHT!!!

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Alright kiddos, the above image is where my student loans currently stand. The red is private loans and the green are nice little federal loans. What it all means is that I’m over a 100k of debt and this month I paid $1,650 on it, which made it budge slightly. This is my minimum payment, meaning that I’m barely paying off interest.

This has put a huge handicap on my life. This huge burden and bill has stopped me from moving to high-cost of living areas to pursue my dreams; aka working in an animation studio. For those who ask why I am making Yo Mama jokes and doing internet animation instead of TV. This is why. And as you guys who’ve been reading up on me and my gender issues, this is probably why I’ll stay exclusively Gender Fluid instead of moving forward with anything, but that cost a lot of money and with this bill, I can’t even afford health insurance.  

This post isn’t a pity party post. I’ve come to terms with most of it. This is consequences of a 18-year-old first in his family to go to college and wide eye to the ideas of being an animator. I didn’t look for any other option besides an Art Institute and I didn’t know what I was getting into.

This is vent post aimed at young artist excited about college. A cautionary tale. Here are things that I knew before going to college that can help you not make the same mistakes that have hurt me;

Know the difference between Federal Loans and Private Loans. Private Loans should be avoided at all cost. They don’t have a lot of options, they have high-interest rates, and they don’t lower payments. Federal loans for many people are forgivable after 20 years of paying on them with certain Governmental bailouts, have low-interest rates and are flexible. If the school you’re going after offers Private Loans, back away.

Not all schools are expensive. I had the misconception that all schools were the same price as an Art Institute, they are not. That’s a Private For-Profit that has triple the intuitions as any other school.

Being an artist is more about who you know, and that many big studios such as Pixar don’t care if you have a degree or not. It’s all about your networks and how good your portfolio is. 

I would argue that even though I went to an Art Institute I am 90% self-taught. My animation course was taught by a film editor who took one Adobe Flash course in college and was now deemed qualified to teach a 2D Animation course. I taught him things while I went.

You can easily find tutorials on anything and everything you would be taught in school. I know a few instructors at my AI who literally printed out tutorials and taught the class through them. The only thing you don’t get from learning online is the networking and the hand holding. But with Twitter, Youtube, and all other social media’s, making connections through your work is really really easy.

Before you sign anything, talk with the instructors of the school. You can get their number or come visit campus. But they will 9/10 be honest with you and the worth of the school. As someone who taught at the same Ai that I went to for monetary reasons, we’re are not against pushing people away. 

Just be careful, informed, and smart. Let me turn such a huge negative thing on my life into a positive in your life. If I can save a handful of you then at least it wasn’t all for not.  Love you, stay awesome. 

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marry from ib

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Practicing one of my favorite scenes in the sonic movie.

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thanks for the cool banner  Binoftrash!

here is her page https://www.youtube.com/user/binoftrash

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Thanks blender guru for the fun tutorial =j !!! here's the link to it if you guys want in on it =) http://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/how-to-make-a-cave/