Good Gawd Man! Software-Heavy Music and Anime Editing

I don't even PRETEND I can keep up with the technological advances of the software and computers used to edit and produce anime and music in a lot of studios. I find it all very impressive. Even Hip-hop is very engineer and studio heavy, what with samples and editing and remixing and dubbing and shading and lighting and painting.

I'm of the older generation (not age, but in process) where you pick up a piece of paper, jot some words or sketch marks on it with a pen and that's it. The Disney and Osamu Tezuka Way, which, in the right situation applies,  but when you get into the hypertechnical world of in studio editing, it gets hypertechnological. Watch any RZA Afro Samurai Documentary, or Post-2006 Production I.G. Documentary, and you'll see EXACTLY what I mean. I get lost on that stuff. I'm good with a keyboard, but terrible with Photoshop. I still USE Photoshop, but it's easy to get intimidated by that level of software and hardware usage they use in studios nowadays with computers.

A lot of it they won't teach you in animation school. It's you're LUCKY if you land a job, and if you do, you bet your ass you'll be learning through trial by fire...meaning first hand experience of working with the staff. But I've never seen so many buttons and GUI's as I have in those documentaries and Japan-based articles online that give a realist perspective of the Japanese studio process.

I'm on the fringes AND in the stone ages, as far as software goes. Just Word and Microsoft Digital Image Pro, a scanner, and photoshop. Everything I do is traditionally hand drawn with pen and ink, and I pride myself on that...