Austin Madison - CalArts student interview

[fondantcakes45]

where can I find the bigfoot animation?

[mag237]

Austin voices Earl Grey in Dick Figures and also was an additional animator on Bolt.

[robberfairy]

Austin and I are from the same high school animation studio. I can't thank this guy enough for all the opportunities and inspiration he's given me.

[CyberChick2011]

OMG, I'm so jealous!!! What's it like working at Pixar?! That's like been my dream since I first saw Toy Story! :)

[LEGIT134]

Exciting! Great job on achieving so much! I am wondering what the best way to get into Pixar is? I have been going to the Art Institite for a year and a half and I am curois what I do when I am ready? When I graduated and I have a great portfolio and animation demo reels how do I approach Pixar? Any ideas would be great:) Thank you... Regards, James Melton

[Graffeetee21]

Was that cgi or did you just draw a ton of frames? haha

[solzonbolt86]

I heard that Great John Lasseter and Brad Bird, Tim Burton all went to CalArts. Calart is a really really amazing school.

[tatsunoko70]

CalArts character animation program's acceptance rate is 8-10 %.

Its like Yale and Havard. Its extremely hard to get in.

[lucasdimedio]

infact, they reject me.:(doesnt matter if i have big ability drawing skills,but more important financially for them...

no money,no calarts!

[lucasdimedio]

you can get a loan for that,but its really prestigious school of arts,and really hard to get in.

you need to have really good skills.

its harder get in calarts then in harvard...

[VerseJer333]

holy crap you are living my dream! any idea where i can watch the bigfoot animation?

[looneystar22]

Oh Austin! You're so inspirational! You've moved and grown so fast since junior high school doodling Fry'd everywhere :). hee hee.

Wall-E was amazing & everyone should see it!

You live my dream Austin!

[hamsterama]

Great video! It's so nice to see a first-person interview about what it's like to be a young animator working at Pixar.

[rtperrett]

That is so inspirational.

[onedreamstudios]

AUSTIN IS THE MAN!!

[dagladhill]

Aww...Mr. Madison. So grown up from his HS days...I remember him doodling in animation class all the time. I love ya Austin...I'm really proud of ya. I love your work!

[MikeTooleK9S]

i've never actually seen austins bigfoot film cause the film and video website seems kind of hard to get to work for me and every computer i ever try it on

[TheAlexmeister]

I heard Pixar beats their animation interns with crowbars to toughen them up. Don't believe me? Than why does Austin have that CHIPPED TOOTH?! Look closely, people. There is such much pain hiding in Austin's eyes.

[Poopookachew1]

Aye, it's not crowbars; it's those huge paddles they use to take pizzas out of ovens.

Crowbars are for the story interns. (Mandrews took the initiative on that one.)

[cru5e]

lol

[Roflcoptinator]

no they throw pens and pencil at them.

[Barthalamew1]

cool.

[boredandcrazygurl]

Cool! I think the Bigfoot part was funny XD

[koolkillarz]

you're amazing. that was so interesting.

[JharMarAye]

Nice, thanks for posting this! Really cool to see an intern and how he viewed his stay at Pixar :)

[J2Cool]

Very very cool. I've really enjoyed Austin Madison's films, and admire his attitude about working and accepting criticism.