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jkatkinaOkay, so — you know how TL and I ran into a group of people who know someone we used to live with?
I’m waiting for the third in this series, because everything happens in threes.
The second requires a bit of explanation.
I work at an animation studio. It is, perhaps literally, a dream job of mine. This is a studio a friend of mine used to work at before they had two kids in quick succession and had to take on full-time childcare duties. I got to know how cool this studio was through them, mostly; they invited TL and I to the 5 Second Day shorts screening. It blew me the hell away. (Seriously check out that link.)
Fast forward four years and I’ve managed to get a job at this studio, and my first 5-second day rolls around. Now, this is a big studio, near 300 people split between a couple of locations, so six months in I’ve only really met a fraction of the people. The animation community in Vancouver is also deeply incestuous — people cycle between the several animation studios here constantly, based on what projects they fit with and which studios they love best. So I definitely know people who know people who work here, but I hadn’t really come across any yet.
So I figure, my first 5-second day, I’m a painter and not an animator, I’ll take it easy and help with someone else’s project. A rando puts up a cool DnD-based project up on the company facebook, and I ping them, asking if they need another painter. They say yes, and I go to pick up whatever needs painting.
This Sunday, we had the first meeting of our DnD group in about a month and a half, and we get to talking. Now, an FX animator friend of ours from school is part of this group, and we get to talking. I mention 5-second day; she asks what I’m doing.
I say I’m working with a team, she asks who. I stumble over the slightly unfamiliar name of the project lead, and she grimaces and says his name.
This person is her ex. That she had talked to us extensively about when they broke up and she was trying to deal with the fallout. Who did her pretty dirty, and basically just sounded like a really shitty person. And I’ve found myself working on his project.
>8U gdi
Hey, universe. Can the next one of these be someone who won’t make me feel vaguely dirty by association, please?
I’m waiting for the third in this series, because everything happens in threes.
The second requires a bit of explanation.
I work at an animation studio. It is, perhaps literally, a dream job of mine. This is a studio a friend of mine used to work at before they had two kids in quick succession and had to take on full-time childcare duties. I got to know how cool this studio was through them, mostly; they invited TL and I to the 5 Second Day shorts screening. It blew me the hell away. (Seriously check out that link.)
Fast forward four years and I’ve managed to get a job at this studio, and my first 5-second day rolls around. Now, this is a big studio, near 300 people split between a couple of locations, so six months in I’ve only really met a fraction of the people. The animation community in Vancouver is also deeply incestuous — people cycle between the several animation studios here constantly, based on what projects they fit with and which studios they love best. So I definitely know people who know people who work here, but I hadn’t really come across any yet.
So I figure, my first 5-second day, I’m a painter and not an animator, I’ll take it easy and help with someone else’s project. A rando puts up a cool DnD-based project up on the company facebook, and I ping them, asking if they need another painter. They say yes, and I go to pick up whatever needs painting.
This Sunday, we had the first meeting of our DnD group in about a month and a half, and we get to talking. Now, an FX animator friend of ours from school is part of this group, and we get to talking. I mention 5-second day; she asks what I’m doing.
I say I’m working with a team, she asks who. I stumble over the slightly unfamiliar name of the project lead, and she grimaces and says his name.
This person is her ex. That she had talked to us extensively about when they broke up and she was trying to deal with the fallout. Who did her pretty dirty, and basically just sounded like a really shitty person. And I’ve found myself working on his project.
>8U gdi
Hey, universe. Can the next one of these be someone who won’t make me feel vaguely dirty by association, please?
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