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A few months ago I decided to get an office studio work in so I have a place for my soon to be local animator team
Also I realized how hard it was to work at home, because it got way to comfy at times
Especially when I had my bed litteraly two feet away from my desk
I'll be with you soon my love ♥
As some of you may have noticed over the years
I got additional help on my animations from my friends Jomm, Shho and Ehlboy
Person: "Wait a minute Dom, you're hear to tell me that to don't animate your videos all by yourself?"
Well.. yeah of course.
I wanted to try getting out videos more often, minus this past month because I was helping with setting up the gaming cafè
So I thought I get even more help to take on some of the load
Person: "Well that's lame. Too important to do everything yourself now, huh?"
Hehh?
Well I still write the scripts myself
And do the voiceovers
I still animate the scenes, but not the majority of it?
I'm sorry to shatter your vision of me?
Person : Yeah but, this other animator does everything by themself
Ok... but how often do they post?
Stranger: Once every four or five months
Huh! That's pretty scarce!
But understandable given the time and effort it takes to create a coherent animation by themselves
Person: Yeah, I get that, but I wished they posted more often...
(This Boi did not just said that)
Anyway...yeah, I wanted more aid on the videos
I was cool with my three friends from California helping me out, but sometimes the workload proved to be a lot for us.
I also thought it'd be nice to be physically around the other people working on the same project (creepy dom)
I've usually just been cooped up in my room, and I gotta admit, it was lonely at times. (The Struggles of being a youtube animator)
So I got an office,
Made a post I was hiring locally, hired some people
And realized I needed to get more equipment for them to work with
I currently work on a CINTIQ 13 HD as my main tablet-
-and thought, "That's probably more than enough for the others."
So I decided to check if anyone was selling any used cintiqs on Facebook Marketplace
and my favorite "Your junk, my jewel" platform, kijiji!
The Canadian Craigslist alternative
Person: [in very annoying voice] Wow Dom, why are you being cheap? Why don't you just buy a new one? Surely you could afford it with your millions of dollars!( Kids Now a days)
Well, surely I can afford to also save some money when I can, right?
The tablets are used but they work just fine
And my animators don't mind, right guys?
[awkward silence]
I managed to find four that were available, but they were all spread out around the Toronto area.
One was a 5 minute drive down the street where I live.
Another, was in Downtown Toronto,
Another, was at Seneca College.
The last one, wanted to meet at a Starbucks that was about 15 minutes away.
I asked when they were available at their earliest convenience
Downtown person was available the next day,
So I went and scooped it up on Friday.
The rest were free the day after.
The thing was, I had a dentist appointment Saturday morning,
which was a 40-minute drive away.
don't ask why it's so far.
And then I also scheduled the animators to come in later, at 1:00 PM.
But it kinda worked out because I could drive to Seneca College, and one of the other sellers on the way back to the office.
Now the Starbucks dude,
was a bit more complicated ;-;
Here's how THAT conversation went.
^Hello! Is this still available?
[low starbucks voice] hI dOMinIC, yES thIS iS stILL availAbLE iF yoU'rE inTEResTEd
I am! When is your soonest convenient time to meet? And is cash okay?
I am away, but my daughter can meet at a Starbucks after 2:00 [PM] tomorrow. Are you close to the-
-Starbucks at [beep] and [beep]? Let me know and I'll sort out the details on our side. Cash is fine.
Sure, I can stop by after 2, I'm not too far from there.
Alright! After 2 should be doable!
I agreed to this because I needed to make sure I was at the office before 1, to let my team in
And then I could just head out real quick to pick up the tablet
I didn't get an update until Saturday morning (wow ._.)
GREAT!
She will be there at 2:00!
*ಠ_ಠ WTF THIS BOI SAID*
OK
So, I didn't know AFTER 2 mean AT 2
But I thought it'd likely wouldn't be a problem
I kinda got lost around the Seneca campus
Because the girl's directions were a bit confusing
And so thay meeting got a little delayed since we had trouble looking for each other
Because THAT was late, I got to the other seller later than I wanted
Which meant I also got to the office later than I wanted (the people are dying)
Once i did i still needed sometime to set things up for my animators
And knew i coudn't make it for 2:00
didn't get a replay for twenty minutes
Here's the thing
If you don't want to disclose your personol infomation to a stranger, I get that, That's Fair
but it would be also fair if you atleast promptly
(Sorry for not doing all of it i greatly aplogish for this i'm a ten year old boy)
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