I so wanted to slap her just based on the description alone.

When I saw the preloader I wanted to burn her demo reel before her horrified, butterface eyes.

I haven't even watched the video and I probably never will.

The description comes from the video. You are missing out on an inept video from someone who thinks very highly of everything she does.

yes, I understood that it was likely NOT made up Mr. Ego, but was in fact a direct quote from whatever lame-ass song this girl decided to perform. Call me crazy, but somehow I sussed that out.

I was thinking headbuttable, myself, but either way, the emotion is the same.

dollar for dollar, yes

But to really feel embarrassed for multiple people and money spent, you need a Teen Witch Top That

I've seen hundreds of demo reels. I have no doubt that this is real. It's probably not in my bottom five, but definitely in the bottom ten.

this is completely real.

Pixar... world class animators and she approaches them with a demo real like that?

In her defense, it is really, really, really, really, really, really difficult to stand out in computer arts. If you want someone to at least glance at your stuff from the ocean of people that are also in debt from art school related student loans, you gotta sometimes pull a gimmick. I give her points for trying...cause that ocean is also filled with some really uninteresting, unimaginative reels.

This isn't the movies. You just don't put out a quirky video and expect to be hired just cause you're so spunky. Her demo real was rubbish. If she wants to stand out she needs to work her ass off and make a demo real composed of stuff beyond her class projects.

God damn it, that's twice. It's spelled "reel," cena.

Actually that was three times, god damn

Well how many times does one use real as opposed to reel? A hell of a lot more. I'm not applying for a job as a speller am I?

She stands a better chance of having her work seen, even if it isn't up to par, than Joe "Space Marine Modeler" Blow #3491 who is just gonna do turn tables to Daft Punk. The reality of this work is that a gimmick definitely does not hurt your chances of getting noticed, even if you're the best undiscovered animator on the planet.

That would be a good point sosage if she had a decent reel. There's no point in getting noticed if you don't have the goods to back it up. Her 2D was just okay and her 3D was a joke. And I don't know if she's aware but Pixar makes 3D films.

I have a much better reel than this and I know Pixar wouldn't hire me no matter how many stupid songs I sing them.

Are you not a cute brunette?

sosage: not only does this generate the wrong kind of attention, it also hurts her chances at any studio that isn't Pixar.

Woman graduates with degree in animation, immediately seeks job at most prestigious, successful animation studio in the world, without showcasing skills but instead smiling at the camera and playing the ukelele.

"Pixar... world class animators and she approaches them with a demo real like that?"

You're forgetting Pixar is owned by Disney now, this is entirely appropriate.

Welcome to the team, we need you to make a movie about a dolphin by next July.

I'm curious to know whether she went to the historically esteemed (and expensive as hell) School of the Art Institute of Chicago or if she went to one of those for-profit throwaway "Art Institutes" which happened to be located in Chicago.

She said she had a Fine Art degree so it would have to be the fancy Art Institute. The for profit Art Institutes give out Bachelors of Science for animation.

And while the Ai schools are overpriced I wouldn't call them throwaway schools. Even though that's essentially what they do to their students when they graduate. Still you can get a decent education and a job out of the deal if you work hard.

Now Full Sail...they are nothing but shit.

SAIC = School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The SAIC is a scam. They also produced that girl who made her internet mark cramming a jar of Spaghetti-O's in her cooch. Its graduates are either incompetents totally unequipped for the world or dilettantish rich kids.

I think these schools just have a lot of shitty kids running through their tubes. I know someone who went to SAIC who now works at Titmouse on Metalocalypse. I also know people who went to Art Institutes who work in the game industry, and people who work at Kinkos.

I think the problem we have is a lot of people (entitled boomer children) with no artistic talent going to art schools and expecting to be given talent. Instead they coast through with mediocre work, never learn to work hard, and then blame the school for not doing all the work for them.

Of course the fact that these art schools are charging ,000 a year while allowing mediocre students to pass unchallenged is cruel and inhumane.

Women don't get drafted

That does sound like something old people would say.

Tina Fey's got stroke-smirk because she was stabbed. What's this idiot's excuse?

I think you answered your own question.