The John K. Love-In continues. Amid Amidi has posted the second part of his interview with the creator of Ren and Stimpy over at Cartoon Brew. Once again, while I may not agree with everything he says, I'm damn glad he's saying it.

"You meet young artists now and try to teach them something and they say, "I could do it that way if I wanted to, but this is my style. I draw club feet because it's my style." Unfortunately, schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything anymore. I know this from twenty years of experience hiring artists out of the schools. They get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now. They don't teach you anything and the few things that they try to teach you are completely wrong. They don't teach you construction, line of action, nothing."


- posted by Steven @ 12:33 p.m.

 
Back in the Ring

Everytime I hop on a computer nowadays, I scoot through my regular stops and end up with a surplus of minutes right at the end. That, coupled with a nostalgic yearning for blogging, has resulted in this attempt to start up the five-minute post.

Today, the completely fascinating exchange between animation critic Michael Barrier and animation legend John K. This is certainly reigniting the animation spark in me, and I'm finding myself drawn back into watching cartoons more closely and with a deeper analysis. Much as I may disagree with some of his opinions and his resulting animation, I would love to work for Spumco, if only to be pushed to the limit.
- posted by Steven @ 7:35 p.m.