Aslo a common thing in France. I never understood why art schools were so openly anti-anime (or manga) style. I remember hearing nonsense such as "except Miyazaki movies, anime is not *real animation*. Paprika, Ghost in the Shell and such are too realistic to be called animation"
When working on my student movie, most of the teachers couldn't understand what we wanted to make, even though we were showing them references (Mind Game or Dead Leaves). We were told "we are an ANIMATION school, we don't want any ANIME here". WTF seriously?
We just decided to do our movie the way we wanted, even though we knew the school will never support it.
Only one year after graduating, I found a job in an animation studio in Tokyo. And I've been working in the anime (or anime inspired french animation) industry since then
A couple years later I came back to my former animation school as a layout/storyboard teacher. I gave my students exercices using only anime storyboards, and showing examples taken from anime together with western animation and live action.
I invited artists like Masaaki Yuasa, Sushio, Koyama Shigeto to visit the school, show their work and interact with the students. I hope that in the future some japanese animators/directors will be able to make master classes in western schools
Never let any art teacher ever bring you down because you like anime and like drawing anime style. There are some people here in Japan who would like to give you work someday, if you have good drawing skills and are willing to work hard to create the future of anime!
This is getting more attention lately, but the most important is my last message of this thread >
Never let any art teacher bring you down bc u like anime & drawing anime style. Some studios here in Japan could give you work someday, if u have good skills & are ready to work hard
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