Read the section "What does your career path look like, from college to now?" Select the paragraph from the section that suggests Yokoo learned the most about animation when she was actually on the job. (A)
I was not disciplined enough to say I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer. I counted up what I had as far as credits. I had enough credits for some unusual interdisciplinary major called urban studies. It was kind of cool because it could be urban planning, it could be public education, it could be building. I also ended up double-majoring in fine art because I'd had some drawing classes that I had taken.
(B)
At the end of school, it just happened that "Toy Story" came out in Christmas of 1995 and someone told me that we should go see it, but I said, "It's just a cartoon!" My friend said that it was supposed to be really good. We went to go see it, and I was just blown away. I hadn't seen anything like that, and there was just something about the craft of that film where you could tell that everybody who worked on it just had such a great time, and it was such a mind-meld for them where they had just created this amazing thing.
(C)
I wanted to be at Pixar. In the summer of 1996, I started taking classes at the Academy of Art because I had heard some of the Pixar animators were taking classes there. I managed to get into the first class and then was hired out of that class to do background bugs in "A Bug's Life."
(D)
I barely knew anything about animation, and it was trial by fire. I got thrown in and they said, "Here, just start animating some ants in the background." And at that point, I had not animated anything with hands or fingers or a mouth or eyes. I figured it out, and people were really wonderful teachers.
(D)
I barely knew anything about animation, and it was trial by fire. I got thrown in and they said, "Here, just start animating some ants in the background." And at that point, I had not animated anything with hands or fingers or a mouth or eyes. I figured it out, and people were really wonderful teachers.