Tag Archives: rants

Jing: Facebook Lists

Hey Campers, welcome to the first Jing post on tonyteach. Jing is a FREE screencasting software for videos under 5 minutes. So, for those emailed questions I get, if its something I can answer in 5 minutes or under, I’ll Jing it for ya, and get it posted a lot quicker than a full-blown tutorial. [...]

The Essential Need for an Honest Critique

I believe that we all are the sum of both the positive and negative experiences, and people, in our past and present lives. As an instructor, I know that both my good teachers and bad teachers helped to shape my teaching styles and methods. In some cases, one of my teachers would do or say [...]

Clients & Budgets & Artists… Oh My! (cont.)

The response on this post has been great! Please keep the comments coming. I also encourage everyone to read the responses from the Creative COW business forum where I placed the same post.http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/17/860161 Thanks, Tony Ross

Clients & Budgets & Artists… Oh My!

From time to time when doing freelance work, I have encountered potential clients that have projects, ideas or concepts that are much greater than their budgets. Now, the type of client I speak of is the client that never mentions their budget. Usually during the course of our initial conversation, whether from experience or intuition, [...]

A Funny Tale of Plagiarism

I think time has passed enough that I can share a story from my teaching experience. A funny story (now) of when circumstances stopped being a coincidence, and, even from the outside looking in, seemed to have the hand of God involved. OK, so here goes. A few years back I was teaching at ACA. [...]

I want $3,000…NOW!!

OK, first and foremost I am not obsessed with money. Trust me if the things I wanted were 5¢ each, I would be one happy camper! Lately everything has been floating around $2,500 to $3,000.To start, the base computer I want (from Apple of course, love who your with) the Apple MacPro–drool, $2500. I have [...]

Animation vs. Story

I have a concern. Once upon a time, in the heyday of Bugs, Mickey and the like, there were great stories, voice work, music, foley and sound effects, and awesome animation. These works took entire studios to produce.Now, with todays technology, animations and even movies can be created by a small group, or even one [...]