Animation and bricks
Today I'm talking about animation. One of the things I’ve always had an love of is animation. From my early days I’ve watched all sorts, anything I could watch. Of course, like many, my first true loves came from Disney and Warner Brothers. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that as I grew thoughts of becoming an animator entered my mind. I had signed up for an animation course through the National Film Board to be taught at their main street animation studio. Of course, a week before it was to begin, I wound up getting a job as a welder. The course was to be held evenings and the job was an evening shift position. I was devastated. The idea of animation kinda went away for awhile. I had books of course, but life and personal bad habits kept me from affording the materials I would need to begin. Like I couldn’t afford some round doweling and didn’t already own a hole punch. But it had to be perfect don’t you know. There was also the belief that I would fail if I put myse...