So, can I become an animator?

The contender:
In this corner, weighting in at 75 kg (around 165 lbs), from Mexico City ... Andres Straulino R.
I'm also tall enough to reach the 1.78 m (5'10") mark that will let me in on most park rides.
Don't really know what difference does that make, rather that I'm an ordinary looking fellow.


yours truly

Born in 1980, just a day before the release of AC/DC's Black in Black, and a week before Kaleidoscope from Siouxsie & the Banshees, when Another Brick in the Wall, Part II, Call Me, Brass in Pocket, and It's Still Rock n' Roll to Me were the number one singles and a couple months after The Empire Strikes Back release, I grew up as a regular kid. It would took me some years to realize who those bands were, and what was going on at that time.

I remember watching cartoons and being free to stay up late whenever the Sunday night movie had one to show. I fall in love with them, but never occurred that someone actually made those. I used to think that all cartoons exited somewhere somehow, as they were touched and blessed with the illusion of life.

By the time I grew hair in my most private parts, I was really immersed in a different form of sequential art, COMICS. I always imagined how great would these turned if they could move from one pose to the other. They have now become great story boards.

Falling in love with those was an easy thing to do. The difficult part was to figure out what to do next. It was so difficult, or I was so dumb and naive, that I didn't picture that as my professional roadmap. So I was finishing high school by the time I had to choose a profession. I could have gone into the Artsy way, but NO! No, no, no, no. Those decisions where I use my feelings and intuision are always falling in deaf ears. Why go the easy way when I can do the hardest? Why go for what I want, when I can pounder my way to success the long way?

So why not Engineer? I don't have trouble with Physics. Being an Engineer is kinda cool, right? I could get paid for using my brain and coming across cool designs to help people and create wonderful products. Sounds great! So I stepped into an University to study Engineering and one of the reasons was as simplest as the fact that I could do my Math. Huh??? What did I do!!!! Yep, that's right.

Now I have a Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree, which I don't like and I have been working for 4 years on a field where my professional experience is on the Industrial Field spread among Automotive, Lighting and Production. Suddenly, I couldn't stand it anymore. It was like waking up and finding out that there is no golden chest on the other side of the rainbow, not realizing that it's a fairy tale, but because Lucky was running away with it.

I had to do something. I had to fight back. "Tan, tan tan taan, tan tan taaaaan, ta raaaan!"

So here I am. A 28 year old, with no formal arts background, no film, theater, photograph, or design skills wanting, dying to change his stars.

Can I become an animator?

This is the story. The ongoing story.