Definition of SELF-TAUGHT
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: having knowledge or skills acquired by one's own efforts without formal instruction
How does one define "formal education"?
If someone paid for an education in a subject, let's say they paid to take my character design or visual development course and afterwards told people they were self taught, then how does the paid teacher and paying student relationship qualify as anything other than formal education?
Let's say you pay an online educator to teach you how to drill a hole in a tree. Then you become the outstanding tree hole driller in town and you promote yourself as self taught. Does the tree hole drilling instruction you paid for suddenly not count as formal education?
It's very dishonest and misleading of artists in animation who paid for an education at an educational institution, attending class on a regular basis, to professionally represent themselves as self taught. As I mentioned in the video it's part of the dysfunction of the community.
It's an ego based fantasy. Some artists want to impress their fan base with a false and misleading illusion and it's very dishonest.
There's too many things wrong with the wiring of animation artists nowadays. If these guys are gonna go around claiming to be self taught after taking classes with me it's my obligation to counter that misrepresentation with the truth.
Let's grow up and stop behaving like delusional grade schoolers.
Embrace professional standards and acknowledge your teachers.
