ToToon City

     A day before the interview with Toon City I was already excited trying to visualize what I was going to see, will there be a cool studio, cool people, or a really huge building. Uncertain of what will I see. The morning after I woke up 4AM in the morning excited I get ready for the interview, around 6:45AM I got to school our meeting place to my surprise I was the first one there. Around 8:45 AM we got on the bus due the fact that around that time of day many people are commuting to work so we end up riding a fully loaded bus. During the whole course of the trip we were standing, so the end of the trip we were already tried and hungry. We got drop at Robinson Forum at Mandaluyong city, and then took a Cab but end up in Pasig, frustrated we asked some king people for the location of Toon City good thing a kind tricyle drive took us to Toon City.When we got to the building my heart started beating fast. Full of excitement we went Inside.

     Inside the animation studio of Toon City I was astonished because of the posters and awards that was hanged in the walls of the hallway and a marble statue so Mickey the mouse at the sides of the wall as if he was guarding the hall ways itself. We waited for Sir. Rene DE Guzman to escort us  to the interview room while waiting I have observe the people that worked at Toon City they have this overwhelming aura by just staring at them you can already say that they have been working there for a long time as I was looking around the hall ways Sir. Rene finally came and told us to follow him. We through this electronic door that can only be accessed by certain staff in the studio, at the interview room Sir.Rene started to ask about us where did we came from? What school did we came from, who’s our dean, what’s he’s/her’s specialty, all of those stuff by the time my groupmates have answered all of Sir. Renes question we finished setting up the cameras and finally we are ready for the interview.

   

    During the interview I have found out that Toon City originated in the west. Toon City formerly known as Hanabarbera was transferred here due to the union strike in America. I also found out that it is not enough that you can draw you must be able to draw nonstop. You also should have a specialty because Sir. Rene said that being an MMA practitioner means that you know how to do all the stuff that a MMA practitioner does but do not mastered everything.  In sort Jack of all trades, master of none. He also said that if we want to be in the animation industry we should be familiar whit the software and programs that a certain company uses, Either you master all the animation software or take a company work shop so that you can be production ready.  You also  need to have a system in terms of how you gonna run a company. All the things that Sir. Rene said in the interview opened my eyes and inspired me to work harder so that I will be more prepared for the future this is all I can say and hopefully I could have another chance to go inside Toon City not as a MMA practitioner but as an Animator in the near future.