ANIMATION ANARCHY: THE ART COLLEGE CRASH COURSE – LESSON 1
ANIMATION ANARCHY: THE ART COLLEGE CRASH COURSE – LESSON 1
(Or: How You Just Paid Six Figures to Draw Fruit in Charcoal for a Year)
🔥 WELCOME TO ANIMATION ANARCHY – WHERE ART EDUCATION GETS BURNED TO THE GROUND 🔥
This is Animation Anarchy. The blog where we:
✅ Tell the truth about the animation industry.
✅ Roast every sacred cow of art education.
✅ Actually teach you useful stuff (but in a way that makes you question your life choices).
I spent six figures on an art education, and now I’m giving it all away for free—because I am a generous, unhinged idiot.
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(Unless you want to keep getting scammed by the art school industrial complex.)
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LESSON 1: WELCOME TO ART SCHOOL! HERE’S WHY YOU’VE ALREADY MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE
(Or: The Most Expensive Way to Feel Like a Failure in Your First Year)
🎨 CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE MADE A HORRIBLE LIFE CHOICE!
You have entered the magical, whimsical, completely financially devastating world of art school.
You love to draw. You have a dream. You want to be the next big-name animator, illustrator, or creative genius.
But first, art school.
Because you need a degree, right?
🚨 WRONG. 🚨
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🔥 WELCOME TO ART SCHOOL – WHERE YOUR DREAMS GO TO DIE (OR AT LEAST, GET SEVERELY BRUISED)
WHAT YOU EXPECTED FROM ART SCHOOL:
✅ World-class education from industry professionals.
✅ State-of-the-art resources to unlock your creative potential.
✅ A clear path to success in animation, illustration, or fine arts.
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET:
🚨 A $200 textbook that says “just draw what you feel.”
🚨 A professor who hasn’t worked in the industry since before Photoshop existed.
🚨 Your classmates judging you while drawing anime wolves in the corner.
🚨 Endless critique sessions where someone says, “This lacks intention” and you nod like you understand.
🚨 A portfolio review where they tell you to “experiment more” and then hate everything you experiment with.
Oh, and you are now in debt.
Because you just took out a loan to pay for a “figure drawing” class where you sketch naked people for three hours in silence while your professor eats yogurt in the corner.
WELCOME TO THE MOST EXPENSIVE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS OF YOUR LIFE.
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💀 MYTH: “YOU NEED ART SCHOOL TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL ARTIST”
Let’s break this down:
✅ THINGS ART SCHOOL GIVES YOU:
• A crippling amount of debt.
• A classmate who will actually become famous (it won’t be you).
• A professor who still talks about their “upcoming” graphic novel from 1998.
• Trauma.
🚫 THINGS ART SCHOOL DOES NOT GIVE YOU:
• A job.
• A guarantee of success.
• Actual structured learning.
• A way to explain to your parents why you spent $100K to draw cartoons.
But wait, what about “connections”?!
Sure, if by “connections,” you mean you’ll spend four years watching your classmates copy Glen Keane and hoping one of them gets hired at Disney.
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🔥 THE ART SCHOOL EXPERIENCE: A STEP-BY-STEP BREAKDOWN 🔥
Step 1: Pay an Unholy Amount of Money
• Congratulations! You just signed up for financial ruin.
• Your parents are proud but also visibly nervous.
• Your roommate is already 500% better at drawing than you.
• You have purchased the official “$300 Required Sketchbook” (that you’re too afraid to draw in).
Step 2: The First Assignment – “Draw What You Feel”
• You turn in a well-rendered portrait that took 10 hours.
• The professor says it “lacks emotional depth.”
• The student next to you turns in a stick figure holding a balloon.
• The professor cries and calls it genius.
Step 3: Your First Critique – Public Humiliation Disguised as “Feedback”
• Everyone circles around your work like vultures.
• You watch your soul leave your body as a classmate says, “I think this lacks form.”
• The professor stares at it for five full minutes in silence.
• Someone brings up “the use of negative space” even though there isn’t any.
Step 4: The Great Portfolio Panic
• You realize half your classmates are industry plants and already have internships.
• You start panicking because your portfolio is just 12 sketchy anime drawings and an unfinished painting of a sad clown.
• The professor tells you to “develop your own voice.”
• You ask how.
• The professor stares into the void for 30 seconds and says nothing.
Step 5: Graduation – The Crushing Realization That No One Cares About Your Degree
• You walk across the stage.
• You get your diploma.
• You immediately open your laptop to look up “freelance commissions” while your parents hug you.
• Your student loans activate like a Final Boss Battle.
• Your first job offer is for $10 an hour to draw corporate mascots for a pet food company.
Congratulations.
You now understand why every successful artist on the internet says “just practice” instead of “go to art school.”
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🚨 THE SOLUTION: JUST WATCH THIS SERIES INSTEAD.
I wasted six figures so you don’t have to.
🔥 The next lesson drops soon!
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💀 COMING NEXT: Lesson 2 – The Supply List Scam: How to Bankrupt a Student Before They Even Start
(Or: Why You Just Bought a $200 Ruler That You’ll Never Use.)
💬 Drop a comment: What’s the WORST art school scam you’ve seen?
(Or, what’s your most traumatic critique session experience?) 🎨💀😂
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🚨 ANIMATION ANARCHY STARTS NOW. 🚨
🚀 The revolution will not be graded.
