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A review by mangosmar
I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation by Natalie Nourigat
5.0
Books like this are the reason I have faith in humanity!
I love that between all her other work, Natalie Nourigat decided to make this specific comic, to share her knowledge and experience to encourage other artists and give them the resources she was looking for.
It was short but full of tips on how to look for work, build your portfolio, and keep going despite the rejections. She encourages you but gives you perspective at the same time. There are disadvantages to working where she is, like isolation, and she makes that very clear. The book is very positive and cute-looking but doesn't present an idealized version of working in animation in LA.
No matter how dense the text was on the final chapter (too text-heavy for a comic, but it wasn't meant to be part of the rest of the story), it was wise and so valuable to include others' experiences after her own.
Resources / Things that this book inspired me to do
1. Visit zoos to draw animals
2. Look for work and make a portfolio according to what they'd want to see
3. Keep trying hard to collect rejections. (Apparently it might take a couple of years to get the job you want, so a rejection is far from the end of the word)
4. Keep educating myself when it comes to art!
5. Keep making personal projects
6. Look up storyboards that people upload to study
7. Connect with other artists and organize things!
8. Look up all the artists mentioned and find their work
9... Try to work in France for a while? But that might just be me, there was no such encouragement.
There's more, but that's all that I can think of right now (and I'm not planning on moving to LA, so I'm not mentioning these)
I love that between all her other work, Natalie Nourigat decided to make this specific comic, to share her knowledge and experience to encourage other artists and give them the resources she was looking for.
It was short but full of tips on how to look for work, build your portfolio, and keep going despite the rejections. She encourages you but gives you perspective at the same time. There are disadvantages to working where she is, like isolation, and she makes that very clear. The book is very positive and cute-looking but doesn't present an idealized version of working in animation in LA.
No matter how dense the text was on the final chapter (too text-heavy for a comic, but it wasn't meant to be part of the rest of the story), it was wise and so valuable to include others' experiences after her own.
Resources / Things that this book inspired me to do
1. Visit zoos to draw animals
2. Look for work and make a portfolio according to what they'd want to see
3. Keep trying hard to collect rejections. (Apparently it might take a couple of years to get the job you want, so a rejection is far from the end of the word)
4. Keep educating myself when it comes to art!
5. Keep making personal projects
6. Look up storyboards that people upload to study
7. Connect with other artists and organize things!
8. Look up all the artists mentioned and find their work
9... Try to work in France for a while? But that might just be me, there was no such encouragement.
There's more, but that's all that I can think of right now (and I'm not planning on moving to LA, so I'm not mentioning these)