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hellocookie's review
5.0
A great and informative look at the animation industry in LA with insight into how to acquire a job, build a portfolio, and more. Honestly, a lot of what’s within applies to many creative fields too and even though I’m not an artist, I found that it was still a great read.
lattelibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
Nourigat's memoir is a testament to the millennial way of life: freelancing, paying rent, and completely wiping your savings out and living on couches for a few months while you try to take your life in the right direction. With pastel colors and information from all sorts of artists from different studios, her memoir is not only a recap of her life up until the point of its publication, but also a guide book for those interested in illustration and animation.
Her wit is humorous, her perspective is realistic, and her hopes and dreams are aspirational. Though I myself don't work in animation or illustration, I easily found my own hopes and struggles in her own, and I'd argue that it'd be the same for all sorts of other people out there. The struggle with moving across different states, trying to build up a savings account, trying to find a job (oh, I remember the summer days where I sent out 100 librarian applications to land 6 interviews to get 1 job).
Her memoir also provides really useful career information regardless of what field you're in--the first, of course, being networking. Having those connections means sometimes being the first to hear about a new job opening and the requirements, and even meeting higher-up execs and having others take a look at your portfolio (or resume, for non-art folk). She also mentions the fact that just because you don't have the minimum requirements for a job doesn't mean that you shouldn't apply--gumption and hope do get people places!
Overall, I found Nourigat's memoir to be entertaining, helpful, and just plain pleasant to read. This is definitely for you if you want something cute, quick, and so, so informational.
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Her wit is humorous, her perspective is realistic, and her hopes and dreams are aspirational. Though I myself don't work in animation or illustration, I easily found my own hopes and struggles in her own, and I'd argue that it'd be the same for all sorts of other people out there. The struggle with moving across different states, trying to build up a savings account, trying to find a job (oh, I remember the summer days where I sent out 100 librarian applications to land 6 interviews to get 1 job).
Her memoir also provides really useful career information regardless of what field you're in--the first, of course, being networking. Having those connections means sometimes being the first to hear about a new job opening and the requirements, and even meeting higher-up execs and having others take a look at your portfolio (or resume, for non-art folk). She also mentions the fact that just because you don't have the minimum requirements for a job doesn't mean that you shouldn't apply--gumption and hope do get people places!
Overall, I found Nourigat's memoir to be entertaining, helpful, and just plain pleasant to read. This is definitely for you if you want something cute, quick, and so, so informational.
Review cross-listed here!
jwinchell's review against another edition
4.0
This is such a specific book- how to break into the animation industry in LA- that it’s hard to imagine there’s a huge readership out there for it. But I found it and rather liked it- I learned a lot about both animation and LA, and that’s a good thing. Interesting.
jkenna1990's review against another edition
4.0
This is a great resources if you are looking into going into animation. As someone who is not, this was still a great book and very informative.
yokorie's review against another edition
4.0
3.5/5
I'm not in the animation field myself, but have greatly enjoyed it well into adulthood. As someone who was recently laid off, I've also been pursuing books and other media about how other people have acquired their jobs, how their work-life balance is, and so forth, even if they aren't strictly in my field. Therefore, this book made for a perfect little volume combining those two things.
The writing was upbeat and lighthearted while still being realistic, and I liked that time was taken to share interviews with other individuals in the field at the end. Nourigat's art is bright and inviting, and I think a visit to LA would be on the mind of anyone who read this book thanks to her clear love of the subject matter and where she does it.
I'm not in the animation field myself, but have greatly enjoyed it well into adulthood. As someone who was recently laid off, I've also been pursuing books and other media about how other people have acquired their jobs, how their work-life balance is, and so forth, even if they aren't strictly in my field. Therefore, this book made for a perfect little volume combining those two things.
The writing was upbeat and lighthearted while still being realistic, and I liked that time was taken to share interviews with other individuals in the field at the end. Nourigat's art is bright and inviting, and I think a visit to LA would be on the mind of anyone who read this book thanks to her clear love of the subject matter and where she does it.
romcm's review against another edition
5.0
I think there’s some advice in here that would work for many careers! I wish I could have read something like this for a whole bunch of different jobs while in school. It was an instant deep-dive into animation.
livlamentloathe's review
The art style is so cute and I loved that. But this book is way more of an intro to Animation than I expected. By the final third, it's entirely focused on what the experience of working in Animation is like and how to break in. I am not the correct audience for this story. Finally, I had to set it down cause I just didn't really care? It wasn't useful info for me and it wasn't informative in a way that was accessible to non-animation folk.