Jan

I thought that I would post an email I received during my final months at university. It is from Jan Pinkava, the director of Pixar's "Geri's Game", (and now "Ratatouille"). I had not long returned from my PDI interview in California, and I had emailed him to ask his advice on making the move to the US. I'm sure he won't mind me passing on the wisdom contained herein.

Um, please ignore the first bit - I'm not posting this as a form of self-congratulatory look-at-me nonsense, but more for the last paragraph. It touches on stuff I wish to write about in a later post, and something many of us computer geeks can do well to heed.

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From: Jan Pinkava <............@pixar.com>
Sent: 30 May 2002 01:08:34

Dear Kevan,

Your short "Joe's Playtime" is an accomplished piece of student work.
Congratulations. I think you have a good future ahead of you in animation.
I particularly like your clear sense of character design.


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Make sure you continue to work on your animation and design skills.
Draw more and more and more. Work on story writing, story boarding.
Remember the computer is a tool. Think like an animator first,
story teller second, computer animator last.

I have to go.
Good luck.

Jan

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