There I provided a week of introductory training to the staff. In April of last year I was lucky to be selected by Toon Boom to travel to Minte Studio’s in Pune, India. The image I’ve chosen to go along with the interview is heavily related to this. That kindness and belief has shaped the person I am today and is a large part of why I am so passionate about sharing knowledge with others. I was very lucky to be surrounded by a group of people willing to put time into a younger member of the team like myself. Our next production “ Inis Spraoi” was to be made in Toon Boom Harmony and we received some general training from a now Toon Boom Legend, Stacey Eberschlag as well as plenty of training from the more experienced staff in Magpie 6. I still had no idea what I wanted to specialise in in the industry but I was just so hungry to learn as much as I could everyday. It was my first gig and at the time I was probably one of the youngest people in the industry. I was working for Magpie 6 Media from 2012 to 2013 on a production “ The adventures of a young Marco Polo” in Anime Studio Pro. When and why did you start work with Harmony? Did you get a specific training? Luckily I felt immediately at home there and have never regretted my decision. I studied fine art, but after understanding the difficulties of supporting myself as a fine artist (which I’m sure my folks would have had to bite their tongue on a big phat “I told you so” upon hearing), I decided to move to the animation course. My parents were understandably hesitant in the beginning due to the limited career opportunities but I think once they’d seen how passionate about it I was and that it wasn’t just “a phase”, they supported me through college and continue to support me today which I will always be so grateful for. I remained passionate for creativity, and after a brief period of wanting to be an accountant for some stupid reason, I decided I was determined to study art. I used to sit and draw them from the television and I remember my grandmother made me some VHS tapes which I figured out I could pause and then trace the images on screen to make little flip books, at the time not understanding that I was animating. Some of my earliest memories are watching Rugrats and the original Batman Animated series in the early 90’s. Hi Stephen, Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into animation?įrom an early age I was mad about cartoons, comic books and anything that inspired my imagination. Today, we meet Animator and Rigging Department Manager at Boulder Media, Stephen O’Keeffe, who will be tutoring our April course: An Introduction to Toonboom Harmony – with a focus on rigging.
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