Former Student Spotlight: Jeff Gill

Once upon a time, I submitted a demo reel to a respectable animation studio, and was lucky enough to sit with them as they critiqued my work face to face. In one segment, I had animated a free rig from the Internet of a guy walking into a movie theater, eating popcorn, and reacting to what he saw on the screen. But rather than point out the flaws in my character’s animation, the two recruiters focused purely on the character’s design and the confusion it spawned over why anyone would enter a movie theater wearing nothing but a pair of underwear and some goggles. At the time, I had thought no one would look that deeply into the matter—after ...

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