Kyle Baker gets me.
Idiots recommend learning some other career to “fall back on” in case the cartooning doesn’t work out. Does anybody give that advice to aspiring bus drivers? “Learn something harder to do in case the bus-driving thing doesn’t work out. Like rocket science.” It’s harder to become a CPA than a cartoonist, so why not do the easier thing? Especially if it makes you happy.
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| — | Kyle Baker |
I recently saw a “blockbuster” Hollywood animated feature at the mall. This cartoon cost $100 million to make. Every blade of grass, every leaf on every tree was lavishly rendered. I noticed that the grass itself was animated, swaying in the breeze. Then I realized I was staring at the background because the story was so damned boring that my attention kept wandering away from the characters. The movie failed financially because kids hated the movie. It bored them, too. It took hundreds of people and millions of dollars to make something this boring. Incredible.
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| — | Kyle Baker, How to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning |
