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>This doesn't mean anything though, because his artistic skills may have been arse when he applied
He's good enough to study on Watts Atelier which most art students quit because it's too intense but not good enough for CalArts? Lmao
>or competition may have been particularly stiff that year.
Proko's a better artist than most CalArts fags but animation is not a skill that's easy to learn unless you just wanna learn the basics with Richard Williams but then you're just a /beg/ animator which is not good enough for a top animation school.
The Animator Survival Kit is just a meme animation book by a self-taught animator that learned to animate from an old booklet, his number one tip is to just focus on drawing which is horrible advice specially if you're not a 2D trad animator.