Feedback: Nicholas Martinez

My name is Nicolas "Nico" Martinez, and I'm 19 years old. I am a budding artist who is not only interested in cartoons, but in drawing, painting, art, old movies, music, and photography. I work and I go through my college classes, and on the side, I draw and paint. I LOVE animation, and I don't know what to do without it. My favorite cartoons include many classic cartoons by Walt Disney, Warner Bros, the Fleischers, Terry-toons, even several obscure cartoons are beginning to grow on me. I like to collect old videotapes or laserdiscs of the cartoons, as well as albums of old comic books.

My favorite posts are the ones with Katie Rice's drawings, Steve's posts on the Fundamentals of Composition, John K.'s posts on the $100k Animation Course, The Original Preston Blair Book. Any posts of old cartoons as movie files, "Swing, You Sinners", "The Bodyguard" and "Bad Luck Blackie", Tex Avery's Kool-Aid Commercials, The Little King in "On the Pan", Ralph Bakshi on 2D vs. 3D, Carlo Vinci: Education of a Golden Age Animator, the Donald Duck model sheets- Gosh! I have a ton of favorites.

During the archive website's run, I have contributed a bit of information to the Cartoon Hall of Fame on several artists such as Richard Williams, John Kricfalusi, Art Babbitt, as well as commenting every now and then, and volunteering once at the archive. Through those experiences, several things dawned on me. To me, it's all about self-discovery. Through many times in my life, I, like most people, start liking the same old artists, just because it was a trend. Seeing what the archive has to offer has completely liberated me, and made me very well aware of what I really like. It has been like an amazing experience learning about artists and styles that are completely new to me.

As a suggestion, can you upload your videos in bigger formats with a faster framerate and a function to step through the frames? The cartoons you've already posted look really great, but I think that would help the learning process a lot.
Iit's cool to have a place with actual UNMANGLED cartoons. Also, you could sell those Thunderbean DVDs if that's possible on this site.

Thanks a lot Steve (the guy who told me to "practice, practice, practice.") People like you and John K. are essential to the advancement of the medium. -Nicolas Martinez

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