Why Do You Animate?  Posted In | Site Categories: Acting,
Education and Training  When a person wants to join my stage-
acting class, I ask him why he wants to act.  The answer to that
question is very revealing, and the amazing thing to me is the
number of people who have not enunciated why they are doing what
they are doing. Here is a few of the responses I hear:
“Everybody tells me that I really ought to be an actor.” “I
think I have what it takes to be a star.” “I have always wanted
to act on a soap opera.” “I don’t know, it’s just something I
have always wanted to do.”  Often, a newcomer will tell me right
away that she has zero interest in acting on stage, that she
only wants to be in the movies. None of these answers are very
considered or introspective.  It is devilishly difficult to make
a career in any art, and that includes animation.  A newcomer
needs to have more fire in her belly than, “It’s just something
I have always wanted to do.”   A new animator is almost
definitely going to face more reje