A Few Good Mentors

摘要

Last spring, the editors received a rather cryptic e-mail from an animator at a major studio about a "side project" that he and a few of his friends were working on. When we checked it out, we learned that the group was planning to launch an animation school with a couple of novel twists, Rather than following the typical instructor-in-the-classroom model, the school would be online and available to anyone, anytime, anywhere. And instead of providing boilerplate responses, as is often the case with any sort of online services and support, a staff of professional animators would offer personal, video-based, one-on-one mentoring.