after effects education

[Frank Hardie]

[shogun3001] “i love in los angeles”

I’d never impose such restrictions on the ladies in my life. Anywhere is good.

Perhaps learning punctuation might be a good first step towards some sort of professionalism.

[Nick Ito]

what a jerk…
i saw it after i posted the misspelled word.
i figured people would be able to figure what i meant.

and quit acting like your S*%t dont stink
you never misspelled a word before?

even if you havent that just makes you a know it all.
( that guy who sits in front of the class who cant wait to belittle people who say something inaccurate)

i hate those guys.

dont be that guy!

that guy is a JERK

[Frank Hardie]

I apologize if I offended you by making light of your obvious typo. No offense was intended. Most people here don’t get so upset when someone makes a tongue-in-cheek remark about an easily made mistake (like a typo).

You still, however, need a lot of work on your punctuation. No prospective employer will look at you seriously if your resume is typed with the same disregard for punctuation as you’ve shown here.

This is, by no means, meant to belittle you in any way. It’s becoming more common these days for people to lack good writing skills. I’m simply trying to encourage you to be better than that.

Being able to handle criticism is a good skill to develop, also.

[Nick Ito]

its for sure not my strong suit.
but then again… this is just a forum to get information and exchange ideas.
not an english class.

ill keep it mind though when submitting resumes, not to use my internet grammar.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

“Perhaps learning punctuation might be a good first step towards some sort of professionalism.”

A looooong time ago, long before I was in animation, in fact, when I was still in college… someone put me in touch with a TV Producer via email. I wrote to him to ask for advice about getting into TV, and he responded:

“Learn to spell.”

I must have spelled something wrong, and I realize that it was unprofessional, but to this day, it’s stayed with me. Looking back at it today I realize 2 things:

1) I should have been more careful in writing the email.
2) The guy was a complete a-hole. Nothing good would ever have come from my dealing with him. He didn;t want to help me, he just needed a good excuse not to.

Whenever I meet anyone like that, I don’t work with them. You can pay me twice my rate – still won’t happen.

WowfactorX – you’re first line was funny. I laughed. Hard.

The second line was just rude, and in my opinion (FWIW) unprofessional. People come to this forum for help, and they’re not always good communicators. You have the right to say what you want, but comments like that reflect on you a lot more than any spelling or grammatical error.

Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re a knowledgeable person, and a great contributor to this forum – and often hilarious to boot – I don’t mean to offend, but I thought I’d put some things in perspective.

Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web

[Frank Hardie]

I must admit that my comments in regard to punctuation might have appeared somewhat abrupt. In hindsight, I should have used a bit more tact. More to the point, if I wasn’t going to attempt to answer the question that was asked, I shouldn’t have replied at all.

In the future, I’ll try to put my brain into gear before posting.

[Nick Ito]

thanks Aharon
thats good info
and thanks for the support.

i defenitely know that this is not one of my better qualities i do try to improve on that.
sometimes ill write my uncle and spell you = u even throw in a LOL assuming he knows what that means.

hahaha

its the complete butchering of the written word and i need to know when to check it.

this board had been very helpful to me on many occasions and i figured id run into some helpful advice to this conflict i have.
i really want to advance my knowledge and figured even if i went to some filmschool or something of the sort, id still be visiting this site trying to find answers to problems i would be running into
(only now paying 30k a year for these problems)

my conflict is i have a job in dvd authoring i make ok money, but i feel i have challenged myself as much as i can there creativley i want to be involved in projects that i can be proud of.

anyway its somewhat hard to explain.
but i gave it my best shot.

i have found some passion in this work and hope at some point to make some noise in the motion graphics scene.

til then ill be watching your tutorials aharon.
thanks for all the help

shogun

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Hey man, we all deserve a freebie now and then. I certainly need them all the time 😉

I appreciate you response, and I hope I didn’t offend you.

And you are right as far as things go with the typing and the spelling and what not. No matter how good you are at anything – ANYTHING – if you can’t present yourself in a professional manner, you are very unlikely to succeed.

Punctuation, using capital letters at the beginning of sentences, not using TXT speak – all very important. Especially given that what many of us do is work with text.

So the fact is, what you had to say was good advice, and if I made light of that, please forgive me. It’s very true.

Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Have you considered taking a continuing education class? You know, not part of a program, but just a class here and there. It might be an option to consider. Check with your local art/animation schools to see what they offer for non-credit classes.

Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web

[Nick Ito]

that might be a good alternative a nightclass if they offer it.
perhaps something at pierce college
(local city college)

in conclusion on the punctuation and grammar thing, thanks for the apology, it did seem more like a dis than any type of constructive criticism.
dont think i am goin to go the route of being all perfect spelling and all that on this board… i dont feel it calls for it least not at this point.
reguardless its water under the bridge