Will pixar allow someone to work from home and send in there finished work? i live in MI?

Question

i live in MI and i don't want to leavce to california for my whole life and leave my family behind :(

Answer 1

call em, but i doubt it

Answer 2

No, they have their studios where all their employees work.

Answer 3

Definitely not. Pixar are the most famous in the industry, and can afford to pick the best and most enthusiastic animators. This includes enough enthusiasm for your job to drop everything else for it! Also, you need in-house training on an ongoing basis, because Pixar use their own unique animation software which you can't learn to use anywhere else. And animation is a group effort which requires constant contact with everyone around you. They don't and can't employ home workers.

It's OK if your family are more important to you than your career, but it does mean you must accept that as a consequence you probably won't be able to get the best possible career. I'm sure you can get a job as an animator around where you live - there are smaller animation studios and many games developers (who also need animators) all over the country.

What I suggest you do is exactly that - train as an animator and get some experience with smaller companies (it's unlikely you'd get a job with Pixar right at the start in any case - they take on the occasional outstanding graduate but usually you need a lot of experience and a cracking showreel). Perhaps when you're older you'll change your mind and you can always apply to companies like Pixar/Dreamworks/Disney then when you have built up that experience.

Good luck. :)

Answer 4

despite the capabilities of modern networking and the like, I find it to be highly doubtful, regardless of your talent level, that you would be able to work from home.

there's only so far that teleconferencing and the like will get you, not to mention storyboard meetings, etc.

if you want to work for Pixar, you are most definitely going to need to take the plunge, and move out of state. before you even get that far, you are going to want to get them interested in you. it used to be that Disney reps would travel to art schools to recruit artists, back when animation was still mostly done by hand. these days, with computer graphics, you are going to need to have a good portfolio, and prodigious talent. I am not fully familiar with their hiring practices, but I can only imagine that they try to scout talent.