💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[Stud2Stud]

I actually liked that vid although I think he should've just used his normal voice. There was no whining and it was actually informative. Where has the Dobson on the video disappeared to?

He was swallowed by a far fatter and less happy entity that does nothing all day aside from making whiny tweets and sucking at splatoon.

 

[Foltest]

Huh. I learned something from Dobson. Something good.

 

[MMX]

He was swallowed by a far fatter and less happy entity that does nothing all day aside from making whiny tweets and sucking at splatoon.

I think its as simple as Dobbie gave a shit back then.
These days Dobson is and I quote " happy in mediocrity".
Ironically he is neither Happy nor has ascended to a level of mediocrity.

 

[Mr. Duck]

I still don't get something about Dobson, if he loves animation so much and wants to work on that field, why isn't he doing flash animations or something similar on his free time instead of webcomics?, is not like there aren't any animators on YouTube that do the same.

 

[Stud2Stud]

I still don't get something about Dobson, if he loves animation so much and wants to work on that field, why isn't he doing flash animations or something similar on his free time instead of webcomics?, is not like there aren't any animators on YouTube that do the same.

Yeah, but that would involve work and effort and would not net him insta-gratification.
He can shit out a comic every few days and feel validated in his worldviews without doing much work while asspatts slowly roll in.

 

[MMX]

I still don't get something about Dobson, if he loves animation so much and wants to work on that field, why isn't he doing flash animations or something similar on his free time instead of webcomics?, is not like there aren't any animators on YouTube that do the same.

Maybe once he would have done....long ago.....in a better time.....before PTSD
These days for Dobbie to do anything he has to get paid first.
Dobster hamstrings himself by refusing to do projects he has a legit interest in like his Skyrim book because he expects asspats and payment up front.

 

[Cucky]

I still don't get something about Dobson, if he loves animation so much and wants to work on that field, why isn't he doing flash animations or something similar on his free time instead of webcomics?, is not like there aren't any animators on YouTube that do the same.

He doesn't want to work in animation, that's just something he used to want. These days he wants ass pats and free money for playing games and drawing the occasional doodle. I honestly believe that if he was give his dream job, besides what i just mentioned, he would crumble like a cookie within a month.

 

[chimpburgers]

I still don't get something about Dobson, if he loves animation so much and wants to work on that field, why isn't he doing flash animations or something similar on his free time instead of webcomics?, is not like there aren't any animators on YouTube that do the same.

Didn't he try to get a job working on Steven Universe this year? Given how badly he fucks up drawing those characters and others, he wouldn't have made it through the interview process even if they had considered his ass.

 

[Dr. Meme]

Didn't he try to get a job working on Steven Universe this year? Given how badly he fucks up drawing those characters and others, he wouldn't have made it through the interview process even if they had considered his ass.

If he would have gotten hired they'd have to change the name of the show to Steven Ballooniverse.

 

[MMX]

Didn't he try to get a job working on Steven Universe this year? Given how badly he fucks up drawing those characters and others, he wouldn't have made it through the interview process even if they had considered his ass.

He said he was, don't know If he actually did.
I remember him crying a bunch about the fanbase not deserving the show because they didnt get its "complex" themes.

 

[tepid]

He doesn't want to work in animation

Oh I think he still does, but not in the production sense. He's happily take an idea guy role if such a thing actually existed.

Ya know he just doesn't want to be "bogged down by all the technical stuff"

Spoiler

"I'm also not the best at the tedious work Animation brings... such as rigging, modeling, and texturing 3-D characters or retracing everything with perfect line-art. I'm more about the actual PROCESS of animation, not all that other stuff. At Disney (and other companies) they have people who's job is JUST that stuff. If you gave me a 3-D scene with the character already rigged and modeled and said "animate," I could do it. It's all that little petty stuff I have trouble with..."

 

[PacSol]

Oh I think he still does, but not in the production sense. He's happily take an idea guy role if such a thing actually existed.

Ya know he just doesn't want to be "bogged down by all the technical stuff"

I'm no animator, but I don't think the kind of job Dobhead wants actually exists. It sounds like he doesn't want the hard job of a director, but he doesn't have the work ethic to be a key animator or inbetweener. It sounds like he just wants to make an animation by having someone else program the parameters into a computer and then he presses play and gets to be an "animator".

Am I making sense, or am I just fellating myself and throwing around a bunch of half-remembered jargon?

 

[Stud2Stud]

Oh I think he still does, but not in the production sense. He's happily take an idea guy role if such a thing actually existed.

Ya know he just doesn't want to be "bogged down by all the technical stuff"

Geez, I wonder why Disney would never hire him. I mean, he's clearly communicating that 90% of the job of an animator is just below his standards and best done by others, but Dobson could do the last few steps of animation (which, I have no doubt, could be done by a trained monkey, if need be).

Wouldn't be surprised if the Job he described, that doesn't have to do all the busywork, is only given to people who have proven their abilities on the busy-work already. Even back then Dobs, didn't think for a second that you have to work your way up the ladder, he was completely certain the mere existence of that job meant he'd have a future in animation, when in fact it only highlights why he'd never make it in animation.

And again: No surprise, it's the same lazy attitude towards art he has in general. "I don't have to be good at the menial basics... I can just jump to the fun bits - it'll be alright!" cue endless images of sausage fingers, fucked up perspective/anatomy and a very lackluster coloring process.

 

[MMX]

Oh I think he still does, but not in the production sense. He's happily take an idea guy role if such a thing actually existed.

Ya know he just doesn't want to be "bogged down by all the technical stuff"

Dobbie cant be an Ideas guy because he has no ideas.
Okay that's overly harsh, Dobbie has ideas but they don't go anywhere.
Alex Ze Pirate was just a bunch of wish fulfillment and lesbian jokes.
If Dobbie was hired by Disney to work on there next project his first pitch would be something like.
"Theres a bear, theres a lesbian, stuff happens"

Or to Quote Dobson

"Stuffness it Happens" ---------- The movie

 

[Belvedere]

Geez, I wonder why Disney would never hire him. I mean, he's clearly communicating that 90% of the job of an animator is just below his standards and best done by others, but Dobson could do the last few steps of animation (which, I have no doubt, could be done by a trained monkey, if need be).

Wouldn't be surprised if the Job he described, that doesn't have to do all the busywork, is only given to people who have proven their abilities on the busy-work already. Even back then Dobs, didn't think for a second that you have to work your way up the ladder, he was completely certain the mere existence of that job meant he'd have a future in animation, when in fact it only highlights why he'd never make it in animation.

And again: No surprise, it's the same lazy attitude towards art he has in general. "I don't have to be good at the menial basics... I can just jump to the fun bits - it'll be alright!" cue endless images of sausage fingers, fucked up perspective/anatomy and a very lackluster coloring process.

Agreed wholeheartedly, it is the menial busywork and technical know how and the "petty stuff" which allows the finish product to happen. No wonder Dobson's work is so deficient, if he refuses to exercise effort into creating a solid technical foundation for his work, how he can expect to improve on the long run, it is impossible. He wants to start building a house by waving his paint roller in thin air wondering why the wall won't take shape.

I know the kind of work he wants exist in studios like Pixar were indeed there are animators that whose only job is to take the assets other people in the studio have created and "animate" them per say, but people who do this not only are highly experienced at this specific task, very likely they started their careers as just prop modelers, riggers, environmental artist, character modelers, there are people who started their careers doing nothing but painting textures, but in the end they worked to earn experience and a portfolio to show for their efforts.

Even if Dobson could get his foot in the front door of his dream job, where is his animation portfolio? Look at the hundreds of Youtube animators out there that have a body of work to show, nowadays there are cheap, readily available tools to create animations for anyone with a computer right from home, seriously, where is his animation portfolio? what animations has he done lately to show he has the chops to do such a job? Because if his Patreon pitch video is the extend of his skill, then no animation studio would take a look at that and say he was hiring material.

 

[MMX]

Lets all seriously take a step back.

Look at Dobsons work.
Is there any consumer appeal ?
How much of Dobsons work is ripped off from other artists or at the very least a Homage ?
How much of Dobsons work is mean spirited straw man shit ?
How much does Dobbie hate the mainstream ?

Now Imagine why anyone would hire Dobson as an ideas man.
Would Dobson with a big budget studio backing him be an different to Dobson sitting behind his desk with his hate boner at the world ?
Imagine Ted....but with social justice themes and bonus pirates lesbians.....and thats optimistic at best.

 

[JU 199]

Errrrr... (Dobby retweet)
(Jim's retweet)

 

[MMX]

Errrrr... (retweet)
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If Dobson sits on it I will support it ....

sadly i wasted all my money on this

Spoiler

http://tokyodesu.com/2015/02/14/eva...r-seeks-to-pierce-moon-with-legendary-weapon/

Dobson can always sit on that if he likes

 

[Pickle Inspector]

A) I get the feeling Dobson didn't understand his own comic.
B) The trolls might be Dogs, but Dobson is a pussy.
C) Dobson is elbowing his way into several fandoms and social issues, spreading his awful, whiny, insincere opinions as facts. That's enough "invasion" some people need to feel justified to harass someone as nasty and unlikeable as Dobson
D) As mentioned earlier: It's so goddamned funny to get a reaction out of DibDob. It's always a really meek virtual shaking of the fist with added amounts of whiny manchild-tears... In the time I've been following Dobson more closely, he was reacting to trolls on a daily basis, he made passive aggressive remarks about fans at least once a week but only once did he aknowledge fans that are supportive of him (and that was when he 'left' dA). He's going out of his way to focus on the trolls for no discernable reason.
E) Dobson is insinuating that the trolls troll him so they can silence his oh-so-important voice and make him "not stand out" of the group. The amount of self-serving bullshit is off the charts at this point. Trolls don't attack him to throw mud on his dazzling magnificence out of envy, they don't tell him to shut his stupid piehole so he starts to think like them. Noone trolls him to make him "not stand out of their group".

After a decade, Dobson still doesn't get why people have trolled him all his life. He's happily trying to shoo away pidgeons by throwing breadcrumbs at them, blissfully ignorant why they never leave him alone. What a dunce.


It's really sad when you think about it. Dobson has such a tiny fanbase, he has to rely on his 'brand recognition' (so to speak) and thus can't really change his name. If he'd started anew, the best thing that could happen, would be noone on earth realising it's Dobson, but I have a strong feeling Dobson wouldn't be able to pull that off, since he'd just get swamped in the rows and rows of unremarkable artists while far more talented, creative and industrious cartoonists/artists soar to the top.

The sad thing is that because of the likes of Wu he probably thinks boasting about getting trolled is a good thing since he sees them get so much attention and recognition from playing the eternal victim all the while he mostly ignores his fans who try and cheer him up.

He has no self awareness. I wondering these days where he should seek a diagnosis...
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"I'll send in detectives! I'll send in police! I'll send in EVERYTHING IN MY POWER!"

Dobson is pathetic enough to feel satisfaction after reporting someone... as if he had achieved anything. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Patreon was closer to shut him down, than to actually act out his reports, since he's being a whiny nuisance of a douchebag that doesn't even generate much income.

He's actually breaking their terms and conditions by offering a "Monthly Gift Basket Lottery" since they specifically say they don't allow any kind of raffle because it counts as gambling.

I still don't get something about Dobson, if he loves animation so much and wants to work on that field, why isn't he doing flash animations or something similar on his free time instead of webcomics?, is not like there aren't any animators on YouTube that do the same.

He has tried, at first he used excuses as to why he couldn't use it (Having an old computer/not being able to use the tutorial DVD) and then once he got a new computer he complained it was harder than he thought it'd be assumedly soon after that he gave up trying and four years later Dobby blamed his college lecturers and his past self for disliking and not being willing to learn how to use Flash in college.

 

[tepid]

I'm no animator, but I don't think the kind of job Dobhead wants actually exists. It sounds like he doesn't want the hard job of a director, but he doesn't have the work ethic to be a key animator or inbetweener. It sounds like he just wants to make an animation by having someone else program the parameters into a computer and then he presses play and gets to be an "animator".

Am I making sense, or am I just fellating myself and throwing around a bunch of half-remembered jargon?

haha that's why I said "idea guy role if such a thing actually existed.".

Despite having some education in the field his desire to work in animation is starting to look more and more like CWCs desire to make a Sonichu game. It's pure "idea guy" mentaility, where they want their vision to become reality but don't have the skills and or dedication to make it a reality themselves. So spin some BS about how "it's all that little petty stuff" getting in the way of their V I S I O N

Just like how CWC just wanted to send Miyamoto some vague character synopsis and crude sketches and expected a whole game to pop out the other end I can't shake the feeling that the only position in an animation studio Dobby would be interested in would be sitting in on episode meetings about Steven Universe and just suggesting the gems should kiss or hold hands every 5 minutes or so.

All he seems to want out of animation is lesbian shipping, he doesn't even seem that bothered about plot or world building anymore. Just cute lesbians and looking back at his DA journal entries the fact he was being criticised about this as far back as 2009 is hilarious.