In which there is an Orientation

I want to go now!

Orientation seemed to be full of lists. Not surprising, but tedious. Still, the professors are pretty cool, so they made it a lot of fun.

"How many of you have flown internationally before?"

Half of the room, hands raised.

"How many have never flown before?"

No hands.

"How many of you have killed a yeti before?"

Without hesitation half the room raises hands.


Also awesome famous sequential artist whose name I've insolently forgotten came and showed us some work. Crazy amazing stuff. I'll remember his name in an hour when I'm away from the computer, I know it. I suppose I'll update that later.

[edit] Mark Shultz, I remembered after I had turned my computer off. Anyway, the only think that can compare to his pencil work, is his ink work. I think seeing the originals made some part of my brain explode.

I just did a quick search on the web of him and found one of the exact images he showed us. Pitifully itty-bitty image but I don't think any size would compare to seeing it in person. This was one of my favorites.

Anyway, it's such an honor to be able to take some workshops with him, and in Japan no less. True enough, he's there more for the Sequential Majors, but fortunately us animators get to hang around him too. I hope he won't be too overwhelmed by us.
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Anyway, note to self learn phrases in Japanese:

"Thank you."
"Excuse me." (Or other apologies.)
"How much for..."
"Where is..." and directions, like left, right, north south, etc.
and of course, we can't forget:
"I'm sorry, I don't speak Japanese."

Really, I'm hopeless at learning languages. I'll probably attach a notecard to my sketchbook or something.

Fortunately not only do I have a friend in Japan I am hoping to meet, but apparently my roommate for the trip knows a little conversational Japanese. Schaweet. I like it when things work out.


I hate blog posts without images. I'll try to find one for this one.