The Blessed Value of Animation and Comic Book Mentorship, but especially Animation

http://www.paperwingspodcast.com/

I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see professionally based animation mentor-based programs like this.

There is so much value in animators with real industry experience as professionals helping out younger, aspiring artists who hope to one day work professionally. It's SO MUCH MORE CONVENIENT than going to college, which is infinitely more expensive and less individualized. 

If I didn't have MY mentor, Phil, in high school, who at the time even back then had a winning track record in TV animation with shows like DOUG and Beavis & Butt-Head, I don't know if I'd have turned out the same way, if I didn't HAVE a mentor back in the day. Someone to answer your questions and critique your work, and encourage you like a father or mother-figure. This kind of thing is sacred to me.

Now that I'm more on my own, I can really appreciate that time in my life.