I'm NOT quitting on trying to break into animation.....

But the industry is slow and hyper volatile and competitive right now, and many of the only people still working a jerks. So until I finish a bit more practice and training and sharpen my skills a bit, catch up on old projects, if at all, I'm on hiatus from pursuing work in animation.

Secrets of Digital Software and Hardware Design...

If you want to be an inventor like me, one secret I've learned is, inventing isn't just about source code, science formulas, electricity, and mathematics.

It's also about function, design, structural organization, and creativity and re-arrangement.

That's where I come in.

You don't have to make devices out of nothing. The first Home PC was built by Steve Wozniak by doing nothing more than primarily just cross-wiring a TV and keyboard, with a little programming and hacking to connect the two.

A lot of new technology is and can be conceptualized by creative methods of tweaking, integrating, combining, cross-wiring, and cross purposing various market versions of PC and Home Electronics hardware and software. The key is getting the inspirations for functions, NOT formulas.

-J.M.

Making An Animated Film

Walt Disney, Windsor McCay, Osamu Tezuka, Tim Burton, Mike Judge, Peter Chung, Genndy Tartakovsky, Jhonen Vasquez, Savin Yeatman-Eiffel. All these filmmakers and more got into animation the same way, and this is one of the best ways to break into animation.

PRODUCE YOUR OWN SHORT FILM OR FILMS

You can go to art school, or base your knowledge on art lessons you had at a young age. As long as you know the fundamentals of writing and drawing, and the fundamentals of the animation production process. Find 1 to 2 or more reliable collaborators, and get to work on writing, designing, boarding, animating, and filming your own short films. Save up some money if you have to.  Beg your friends and associates to help you. Do whatever you have to do to make it happen, whether it's animated by Flash or ink and paint.

And technically, that's kind of where I am. Right at the point where I've decided I want to make my own films eventually, from scratch. 

Staying Healthy

Ever since I "got discovered" (allegedly), I've been neglecting the HELL out of my exercise training and Transcendental Meditation sessions. I'm not a big fan of having a heart attack at 47, so I have my reasons for doing these kinds of things.

The Most Original Artist In The World

I AM THE MOST NEW AND INNOVATIVE ARTIST IN THE WO-OR-ORLD!

I WAS BORN, TO DOMINATE THE FIELD.

I AM THE MOST NEW AND ORIGINAL IN THE WO-OR-ORLD

I WAS BORN TO PIONEER THE FIELD

INNOVATION RUNS THROUGH MY BLOODSTRE-HE-HEAM

EVERYTHING I DO IS THE NEWEST OF THE NEW

I can't help it if I like NEW, INNOVATIVE, and ORIGINAL things

Even DeviantART, which has new uploads every other second is filled with cliches and clones of work by more original more new-style artists.

When I sit down to draw, I'm not producing cliches. I was shocked when I learned I was one of the only people in mainstream media who always produces something, either writing or art design, that's genuinely new. Anime is pretty, but a lot of it is cliche or just fanart of pre-existing shit. 

The Advantage over competition I DO HAVE...

I may not be trying "enough", but fortunately for me, one advantage I do have (maybe the only one) is that everyone else isn't even trying at ALL!

At least I'm putting in my best effort most of the time.

I try, meanwhile, no one else tries or even  bothers with art, writing, storytelling, and design.

I'll always have more motivation / initiative than the next guy/gal.