Where should I intern at?

[Ron Lindeboom]

Only you can answer that question. It all depends on your drive, commitment, confidence, talent, ability to market yourself — which even as an employee, you will always be in sales, as you have to sell yourself and your ideas — and many other factors.

There are no easy one-size-fits-all answers.

Sorry.

Ron Lindeboom

[Tyler Groom]

Okay this will probably be my last question on this post. If someone wanted to buy me some tutorials for after effects, what two or three books or dvd’s should they buy for me?? I am a beginner, but I have used Premiere and Photoshop for awhile, and I have been messing around with after effects 7.0 a little so I kinda know my way around, but what two or three dvd’s or books should they buy? I want them to include dvd’s because its nice to see what the final product should look like. Thanks guys for everything.
Tyler

[Ron Lindeboom]

For DVDs, you can get 50 great tutorials with project files created by Aharon Rabinowitz that I would put up against anyone’s work — anyone. It’s sells for $39. It is called “After Effects: The Next Level” and is an amazing body of work. 50 incredibly useful video tutorials with the project files for less than the price of some of the books out there.

For books, I have always been partial to Angie Taylor’s Creative After Effects 7 as she doesn’t just teach you which button to push or which bell to ring. She teaches you the why and the how, not just the how. Plus, like Aharon, she’s one of the nicest people in the industry.

Aharon and Angie have worked on projects for Viacom, the BBC and many, many others.

Those are my vote getters.

[Bob Zelin]

Tyler –
this is my advice to you. I assume that you have After Effects running on some MAC or PC that you have at home. If you do, make a project – do an After Effect job on your family, on your dog, on your school graduation, on your friends band, on your local sports team that you can get footage from. Make your own goals high. Do a REAL job for yourself – one that you probably cannot fully accomplish by yourself.

Work hard at it. Stay up late at night. Google things that you can’t figure out, and you will find solutions on all kinds of forums (including Cow forums) that will relate to your questions. SUFFER for 3-4 weeks, until it comes out (it won’t be good until you hit a point where you can’t figure something out, and it takes you 3-4 solid days to get the answer to your question). When you are done, you will have your first piece. Use this very piece to get a REAL internship at a real company. If it’s good (and if you spend a month on it, it probably will be good), you will get a real internship. 1 year from that point, you will be qualified for a real job in a real production company.

Forget having mom ordering you a book from Amazon.

Bob Zelin

[Wayne Williams]

I have followed this thread. I see a young man about to step up, hoping he is not taking a fall. What I do see is a bunch of old folks whom have stayed in the game. The all-nighters working on compression problems, loosing audio, discovering a partially plugged cable. The names alone in this thread represent years of working-it-out. So know that these people that responded to your questions are giants in the land. Do listen and take the step. Certain all that spoke here would encourage you to do just that. The COW is there for us all. Do study it. Life is good in the pasture.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Thank you for your vote of confidence in the COW, Wayne. ;o)

I thought that I would let you know that my Father finally passed away. Thank you for coming out from Colorado and getting his story on video. I tried repeatedly to do it but he just wouldn’t open up to me the way he did with you and Ron. Having two vets filming him did the trick. You guys are giants in my book.

Thank you for your friendship and for your being a part of the COW.

The best always,

Ron Lindeboom

[David Roth weiss]

Sorry to hear about your father Ron. I offer you and your family my most sincere condolences in your time of sorrow, and I’m sure that everyone of your extended Cow family wishes you all the very best.

David

[Tyler Groom]

Thank you for all of your help guys, and Ron I am deeply sorry to hear about your father. My condolences are sent to you and your family.

[Wayne Williams]

Ron – I just finished watching your Dad’s war experince for The Library of Congress. He was well worn though bright and encouraged by your presence through that couragous day. I am so pleased we were able to get his story. Archiving the memories of George Lindeboom’s live-or-die combat experience will be there for all whom wish to know, that your Dad was a hero. He lived honorably, bearing the range brand only known to warriors. I’ll let Langer know of the great loss in the pasture. God Bless