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VenomEXsoldier

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Hello everyone! Not sure if anyone still follows my work since I've been dead in this site for a very long time. You guys use to know me as a artist that draws dinosaur stuff but now I finished my animation course and am a fulltime animator! I've been working as a animator for 5 years now and worked in projects such as Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Lion Guard Season 2, The upcoming feature mini-series "Maya and the Three" in Netflix and now am currently working in a indie studio called Aether Studio, the makers of "Rivals of Aether" Where I get to work with amazing artists. So that's a quick summary of what's been going on with me and if you want to continue to follow me, you can follow my work @JVeigaAnim in Twitter The reason why am doing this is because am just doing animation videos and I don't do drawings anymore. So I basically rebranding myself and closing this account to move on. Not sure how many people will care about this journal since most of my best friends in this site has left already.. but for those of you are still here and have a twitter account, follow me there and say hi! It will be good to hear some old friends.

This will be the last post I will make and I'll leave this here for a few months until I close this account. Its time to move on with my Animation career which I've been really enjoying :)

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Hey guys, Well I've been busy with school and I mean A LOT. I barely don't have any free time any more. Learning animation is like a big thing for me and its not only that I got Designing layouts, Life drawing (Which am struggling at), character design, and Script writing. All of this take up my time so much. The more am deeper in this program the more I realize all of my mistakes in my drawings. Sure I can color things nice and fancy but its not drawn out smartly. Which is much important. The people in my class that are really good at drawing can do all this very quickly and here I am doing double the work because my skills are not that high. But I just have to work twice as hard just to catch up to them. Its very tough to go through, there times I didn't even sleep just a finish animation (Doing it Traditional) or doing a layout design

So my point is if you want to be in the animation business you better be sure you LEARN to draw. Not meaning just doodle stuff but take a sketch book and draw people. Every day take out that sketch book and draw something. Learn how things line up, learn about construction, proportions, weight and balance, and Appeal. OR else your your going to be like me struggling in class and have to work double than than the person beside you.

Well that's all I want to say about animation. So far am loving it and my drawings are improving. Its the only thing I want to do with my life is draw cartoons for a living.
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Well I actually didn't even notice this but now I saw it and made me in a good mood. Its not much like my brother has 190,000 views but am happy with what I got.

I been drawing for 9 years now and I never stop drawing. For all this time I wanted to be an animator since after high school and my drawing skills back than weren't that great. *Looks at them* But I came a long way and seeing my drawings improving and not sure what I well do in the next 2 years. But am proud of my self that I never gave up and continue to my dreams.

Since after high school I try applying to animation  at Dawson college and they didn't accept me because of my school grades. (Was not very good at Math). That day was such a let down because all I ever wanted to do is be in that field. So I instead of doing nothing with my life I study Graphic Design in a Technical School. It was a Year and half program and I learn so much in that program and it actually made my drawings better by using the right colors and Fonts. During this time I was learning Life drawing during the weekends and if I didn't learn this my drawings would never get any better. I would of been in the same level maybe a little better with out Life drawing.

After working as a graphic designer for 2 years I was looking around in the web about "Animation" in Canada. Until I came across a school called Algonquin Animation. It was just in Ottawa, 2 hours away from Montreal. So I send my Portfolio that the life drawings I did and got accept it! So am finally study that who I really want to be and even now am still learning about drawings. There's just so much to learn to make your drawings better.

Well anyways I came from a long road, still going and if you want to be an Animator like me than take out a sketch book and start drawing!
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Well its a been a while since I posted anything. So what am been up to? Well since for the past 2 months, I been studying "Animation" In Ottawa. Its something I wanted to do for a while. In this program well learn a lot of Life drawings, Design (Layouts) , Character Design, Animation, and a hole lot more. So far things are going very smoothly I guess. Nothing crazy were doing just yet but hopefully I well manage for the first year.  Second year I hope to get into 3D animation, which I really like to do =3 but we got to do traditional animation first so we understand the basics of animation. Which I like :) I well post a few animations a bit later. Right now I animated a bouncing box and balls so there very basic stuff and I don't think there worth checking unless you guys really want to see.

Oh and for the Commissions, obviously I well have to close it since I cant really do anything because of my animation school XP
So I have to apologize to :iconslasinth: for the last commission taking so damn long XP Its hard for me to start working on it again since I scrap 2 ideas a while ago and now doing another.

Well there's nothing else I can think of so yeah later!


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Hey guys! well its been a while since I posted something but I a few that well be coming now. I been practicing some of my artwork lately and I was in a anatomy drawing class as well :D So expect some human characters as well for practice. I also have a few other things beside "dinosaurs" I well post it pretty soon and I like to know if there's anybody know how to make a your own Journal skin? am planning to do my own. The last commission is almost on its way and once that's done am maybe planing doing some art trades so if you interested keep coming back here few times when am open to do so.

So yeah the coloring artwork gone improve since years past and am trying to do the next level by remove the line arts and making it more realistic. There's a Dino drawing I have that well be posted soon to show what I been up to and what to expect for my other artworks to look like. (And for the commission) My brother was teaching me some new tricks! :)

Stay tune!
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