How to Become an Animator for Walt Disney

Video Transcript

"Say you want to become an animator for Walt Disney Pictures, the grandfather of all animation studios now. It takes a lot of hard work. Cause there are very few spots open and they can pick the best of the best. You have to learn how to draw. And not draw cartoons but draw realistically. They want to see that you can capture life in just a few simple lines. Go to the zoo and draw animals. Lots of animals sketches, lots of drawings of people in restaurants, or at the mall. Be able to capture a performance to capture a story in a single image. You have to be just, I can't emphasize that enough, you have to be incredibly gifted draftsman and a lot of hard work. And that's just the first part of it. Then you have to submit a portfolio and it's reviewed along with several hundred other portfolios. So you have to make sure your work is as good as it can be and hopefully better then everybody else's and to get one of their spots. They used to offer internships I don't know if they are still going on right now. But they would go through like a two or three month training course and with you know, twenty or so entrants and then the best of those people got a position to come on board full time. Currently Disney hires out as in a picture per picture deal. In other words you don't start in and you know, work for five, ten, twenty years anymore. You sign a contract just for one particular film just like any other movie in Hollywood. And once the film wraps, you are unemployed until the next film comes up."