Chris Sasaki: Pixar

The other day a character designer from Pixar came to talk to us about his life in the work of an animator. He went to college in California for animation. After which he started trying to apply for animation studios who all told him the same thing, "You have a great portfolio, but you lack work experience." He just kept applying for jobs all around until someone asked him to work on animating a sequence for the special edition copy of Beerfest, an american comedy movie about the German Oktoberfest. After that he kept doing more and more odd jobs until he was able to get into Pixar. He ended up doing character designs for Monsters University, which is interesting because he first decided to be an animator after watching Monsters Inc. Chris gave us a lot of insight into the workspace of an animator in america, which I'm going to have to be soon enough. It opened my eyes on how my future might be.