- Editing is a craft that takes years to learn and perfect
and any editor will tell you that they're still doing it.
So the best thing you can do is just keep at it,
keep practicing.
- Cut as much as you possibly can as frequently as possible.
Go out and shoot stuff just so you can cut it.
Give yourself a task and give yourself some constraints
and get a smartphone, get some,
download some free software
or some inexpensive software and just cut.
Cut and cut and cut.
Try things.
Try juxtaposing images.
Try putting music over things.
Just feel it out and experiment and don't,
say I wanna tell a story with these three things
and then try it or say I don't care if it makes any sense,
I just wanna feel this.
Just cut.
The more you work on your craft, the better you get at it.
- And be tenacious.
Tenacious beats talent.
In other words, the more you want it,
the stronger you go after it.
It's more important than if you're talented.
- The more you work on something,
the better you feel about it.
The more you apply yourself to it,
the prouder you are of it
and this is the part that can be hard to remember.
The harder the problem is that you have to solve,
the more proud you are
of the solution that you come up with.
- If you're drawing to get a job, that's not good.
You gotta draw for yourself.
You gotta draw sort of based on your inner feelings.
If you're thinking, if I draw this amount,
I'm gonna get in Pixar, that doesn't help.
You wanna look around and find the truth around you,
find what's funny.
If you're in your basement all day drawing,
that's not good either.
You need to get out.
- Listen and watch and read other stories too
just to immerse yourself in different kinds of stories.
- It's great to watch a lot of movies,
think critically about the scenes,
see what's working, what's not.
When you are watching a movie, think about how does this,
listen to the sounds.
Think about how the sound is helping the storytelling.
- Putting yourself outside of your comfort zone
has always benefited me creatively and personally
and it kinda just opens up your mind
to different ideas and points of view.
- One thing that helped me was that I was a camp counselor
at a summer camp one summer
and it got me out of drawing in my basement
and those experiences have helped my films amazingly.
The opening line for Dug in Up
is I have just met you and I love you
and that's taken from a kid who ran up to me
at summer camp and said,
didn't know me, little kid, you're my counselor, I love you
like that
and all these things that you can sorta store up
and they come back into your work all the time.
So get out and experience the world
but bring your sketchbook.
- And the world is changing too.
I think a lot of girls are applying for animation schools.
Right now, the enrollment is about 70% girls
in a lot of animation schools.
So the landscape's changing which is awesome
and for me, I found a lot of inspiration
from a lot of online artists, lot of online female artists.
I think it's not just the people around you.
Now, with the internet,
it's like we're connected with the whole world
so you're bound to find a lot of like-minded people like you
anywhere in the world too
and it's a great feeling to feel like you're not alone.
Yeah.