In the late 1990s, while I was working at Warner Bros. Feature Animation on Quest for Camelot in Los Angeles, I had the chance to teach animation at CalArts — the California Institute of the Arts, the legendary training ground for animators, a school founded in part by Walt Disney himself in the early 1960s.
Teaching at CalArts was an amazing experience - and also the start of my career teaching animation. Here is some of what I learned.