(TLDR warning) Hey so I had this really awful nightmare-
I started my new job at this Flash animation place, and it turned out that everybody else there had been sent a test to do before they were hired; meaning that I was the only one with literally no experience at using the program. Some of them had been doing it for years even, and I was sat next to one of my best friends who’d also been hired and had to keep looking at what he was doing and asking these painfully ignorant questions and by the end of it all I was convinced he hated me as much as I did.
I hadn’t even brought headphones, which I needed, and apparently everyone else had got the memo on that except me, so I had to borrow some from the super kind guy next to me who was still under the blissfully naive opinion that I knew what I was doing.
Eventually I bucked up enough courage to tell the people who hired me about it and they had no idea how it had happened either, and I basically asked them to fire me right then and there because I didn’t want to hold up the project or take a job that someone else deserved, but they told me to just try it for a week and see how it went.
So I went back and sat there in front of the computer for the rest of the day, making little to no progress when I could have animated every scene they’d given me for that week in the same day if it were on paper.
So yeah it was horrible, pretty ridiculous stuff. Good thing that would never really happe-
Oh wait. No.
That wasn’t a nightmare.
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drtoof said: I find animating on paper and then putting the frames into Flash and fill in keyframes with Flash makes for easy and smooth animation. Course I haven’t used the program since Flash Pro 5.
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Oh honey, I’m so sorry that happened! :( But it wasn’t your fault that you weren’t told what you needed to be told. Just...
kiaxet said: Oh man that is really rough I’m sorry D: They wouldn’t have brought you on if they didn’t want you, though. Give yourself another chance (this will all be a funny anecdote later on) and do your best. Let me know if I can do anything to help <3<3<3
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mayhem-and-madness said: Oh dearie, don’t count yourself out yet. You are a very talented and wonderful artist, and as everyone said, it’s only the first day, so give yourself a chance. We are all here supporting you and cheering you on.
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yamyams said: *tighthug*
fallbeil said: That’s terrible! :( But it seems a little unprofessional of them to hire you in the first place without giving you basic information on how they run things. But hey, it’s only the first day, maybe things will pick up after you get a little more into it.
miraclemango said: Moddddddd mod. Mod you can do it. ;A; give yourself some time, hon. You are so talented I CAN’T EVEN DEAL, and a massive sweetie. you can do itttttttt
knockoutroundabout said: Oh wow I’m so sorry that happened D: While reading I kept thinking ‘this seems too realistic/normal to be a dream…’ And then yeah.
aryashi said: Oh Mod… I don’t care if it is impossible, I will hug my monitor and you will feel hugged. Seriously, I have nothing but sympathy.
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baysalt said: NOOO don’t say such things! I started in almost exactly the same position at my first job. But they wouldn’t have hired you unless they thought you deserved it! Flash is a hot mess, EVERYONE has trouble. But you’ll pick it up quick~ Keep at it!! <3
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