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Ryan Storm @RyanStorm

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Ask Me Whatever...luzer

Posted by RyanStorm - June 24th, 2014


Currently I'm in the middle of working on the second episode of Anime Amigos. I'm also out of school now, so hopefully production on that will move swiftly. Hell, last summer I finished cartoons within two or three weeks, simply due to an abundance of time.

I also have my basic distractions, video games and shit. Right now I'm working my way through the traffic cases of L.A. Noire. I'm having a lot of fun with it. I also watched Akira...holy fuck.

Anyway, so onto the subject of the post, I've decided to do a QandA type thing. If you have a question to ask me, ask it. If your don't, thats cool, I might do another one of these in the future, simply because I like answering questions. Ask away.


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Do you plan on going to college? Any top choices?

I've actually been contemating that for a while. For the past 4 years I was against going to college. I thought it'd be a waste of time and that I should just try to jump straight into the work force. I've recently changed how I thought about some of these things and have actually started to consider college again, but I'm still unsure. I'm thinking if I do go, I'll try to get into Sheridan or Calarts. The latter is way out of my league, due to it's 20% acceptance rate, my average grades, and my lack of skill in art forms that aren't cartoons. I'm looking at things like Mass Art or some technical schools, not so much for art degrees, but for technical degrees. I'm hopeing to get a job as a computer technician, just so as I have a source of income, while I do what I love. Creating animated pictures.

Why is your name CRLproductions? And what inspired you to animate?

And here's some advice "you don't have to take it by the way ;)". I'd recommend taking something other than art in college. Studios and other places that take animation care less about degrees and more on what you've done as an artist. As long as you have a good portfolio and a decent amount of experience, you wouldn't have to go to college to get a degree. And even if you wanted to go there to learn, why waste your money? Use tutorials found on the internet. They're free and can be found anywhere on Youtube. Colleges just tell you the same exact shit the tutorials are saying anyways. Just go to this guy's channel and you'll learn everything:

https://www.youtube.com/user/DrawWithJazza

The only reason you'd want to go is gain experience and connections with other artists, which will enhance your chances of nailing a better position of work, but that's pretty much it. By taking another course, you'd be setting a plan B, which can be: Work in computors/anything else, and make animations online. That's my plan at least. Making money both offline and online.

Then again, you may already have a plan lol. Big fan of Pico Day and Exorcism of Donald Duck. ;)

The name CRLproductions came from when me and my friend Colin decided we wanted to make Lego animations for youtube when we were around nine years old. It stands for: Colin Ryan Lego Productions, a title I'm now stuck with haha.

I've been animating since I was really little, simply because stuff like Ed Edd n Eddy made it look cool. I'd draw storyboards, take photos of them with my camera, and wonder what I was doing wrong. It was when I was about 13 that I really started to consider animation as a career. Thanks to my discovery of Ren and Stimpy DVDs, one of which came with a 15 minute feature on making Ren and Stimpy. Despite the fact that I now see John Kricfalusi as an old douche, hes still very inspirational and reading his blog lead me to learn how to animate...good.

As for what you said about college, thats sort of my plan right now, get a degree that say, "this guys good with computers," and start working with computers as a primary source of income, while still doing what I love and making internet cartoons. I haven't ruled out art college yet, mostly for the potential experience and chance to make connections (like you mentioned.)

I'm glad you like the stuff I make :) I'm watching one of Jazza's tutorials as soon as I finish typing this.