Be really good at drawing and animating -> learn Japanese -> apply for animay job -> be lucky -> live in poverty.
rather ask on anipages forum http://www.pelleas.net/forum/
there's already 3 anime professionals there (bahi, peter chung and michal arias)
and also ask here http://furansujinconnection.com various frenchguys that work in anime, they made a kind of support website for those who'd like to (in french though) twitter: https://twitter.com/furakone
anyway, to survive you'd need to be really good yes (for your career, you don't plan to make cheap douga all your life), and also support low pay and all the well known inconvenient, luck too
there's also a thread on catsuka forum (french again), for talking about working in anime experience in japan (the last pages were quite motivating for me, the guy I'm going to talk about gave some insights from his age of 19 to this date, he did studies in 3D or something, had then a stage at OLM (just watching), and now he's going to try working there)
but actually it doesn't seem that hard to get into it as long as you're determined, I'm in contact with a french guy of my age (21) who's gonna work at OLM from this october... not to badmouth him but his level in drawing isn't super amazing (yet).
it seems to be a recognized fact that you can enter the industry while being quite unskilled, you're going to do douga work and have shit pay, but it'll train you (and you can train yourself too), and you'll be in contact with skilled animators to learn from them. seems that after 2 years or so, if you withstood the pain, they give you more trust and you can go up the in industry.
there was an interview of another french guy who worked on naruto around 2005 and he had a correct level (or quite good maybe) but he still did douga, most of the time you start from the bottom apparently, even when you're good
but it seems that times are changing anyway, look at bahi, just git gud and get noticed
edit got carried away, didn't notice it was 2 months old...
there's already 3 anime professionals there (bahi, peter chung and michal arias)
and also ask here http://furansujinconnection.com various frenchguys that work in anime, they made a kind of support website for those who'd like to (in french though) twitter: https://twitter.com/furakone
anyway, to survive you'd need to be really good yes (for your career, you don't plan to make cheap douga all your life), and also support low pay and all the well known inconvenient, luck too
there's also a thread on catsuka forum (french again), for talking about working in anime experience in japan (the last pages were quite motivating for me, the guy I'm going to talk about gave some insights from his age of 19 to this date, he did studies in 3D or something, had then a stage at OLM (just watching), and now he's going to try working there)
but actually it doesn't seem that hard to get into it as long as you're determined, I'm in contact with a french guy of my age (21) who's gonna work at OLM from this october... not to badmouth him but his level in drawing isn't super amazing (yet).
it seems to be a recognized fact that you can enter the industry while being quite unskilled, you're going to do douga work and have shit pay, but it'll train you (and you can train yourself too), and you'll be in contact with skilled animators to learn from them. seems that after 2 years or so, if you withstood the pain, they give you more trust and you can go up the in industry.
there was an interview of another french guy who worked on naruto around 2005 and he had a correct level (or quite good maybe) but he still did douga, most of the time you start from the bottom apparently, even when you're good
but it seems that times are changing anyway, look at bahi, just git gud and get noticed
edit got carried away, didn't notice it was 2 months old...
Two months old or two years old, useful information is useful - usually for greater numbers of people than those who made the thread or posted in it.lighthalzen said:
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edit got carried away, didn't notice it was 2 months old...
Gratitude for the input, lighthalzen! *thumbs up*
evan
getting to the industry question!