This may have been my favorite presentation from a guest speaker this semester. Mostly because it's something that I could see myself participating in, and possibly making into a career.
I like to draw and always have, and I am always looking to get better. It was fun to work on the story board for the first scene for the Picabo film, and I could see myself getting better and getting to enjoy it as time goes on.
As far as his presentation, I liked his back story and how he got started. It was definitely a blessing in disguise, being stuck in a hospital/in bed all the time and just getting better at drawing all the time.
Even though his start was time consuming and probably farily difficult to draw so much (for example with Transformers, how he would get all the busy and more time consuming jobs to do) it made him better. Challenges like that are meant to make people better at their skills, though we might not know it at the time.
His filmography/portfolio is impressive. As a '90s child, knowing that he worked on movies like "the Sandlot" and "Johnny Tsunami" was pretty exciting to me.
Speaking of challenges, I liked the stories he told about the directors and producers he has worked with who proved to be difficult. On the other hand, he's also worked with some amazing talents in those same positions.
His comment about watching a movie almost every day was interesting. Several years ago, I think it was in 2011, I tried to watch 100 movies in a year that I had never seen before. I believe I got into the mid 80s as far as quantity goes. Anyway, I'd like to start that again.
I wrote down a couple of quotes from "Fletch" that I enjoyed:
"Most of you will struggle; the walls are set high for a reason - those with the ambition get over the wall."
"Good ideas come from everywhere and you never know where they're going to come from."
"It's okay to fall down, skin your knee and get back up. School is a great place to fail."
