REJECTED Sheridan Animation 2023 Portfolio 

wow, your portfolio looks really well put together! good for you for giving it your all. I'm a past graduate of sheridan's animation program and it took me two tries to get in, most of my fellow classmates applied more than once before being accepted. even if you don't apply again, keep up your artistic journey! you got this.

For character turnaraound.. you might want to get into bledner and 3d sculpting. I know It isn't what you want to study but modelling and going into 3d enviroments really helped me understand perspective and form and it might just get you on that next lvl. Good luck! ;)

Damn American animation colleges are crazy, it seems like they want almost professional level students 😟 I’m glad you took the rejection well tho!

Genuinely admire those who are brave enough to share their failures, purely in the hope it helps someone else succeed. It takes a lot courage to share these things, especially to the whole internet. I hope you keep practicing, because you have so much talent. I see great potential in you!! Keep practicing, and please, one day reapply!! You are much closer than you think. Many wishes for your success!!

this video made me realize how much room i have to improve, but it's honestly inspiring. i admire your positive attitude even though you weren't accepted, and i really hope you're able to get in if you apply again!! i think you'd 100% have it in the bag already if you just spent more time on each section tbh

Im so sorry your portfolio was rejected. You're art is really lovely to me! I don't really do traditional drawings anymore but your art is so nice and it really inspires me to start a sketchbook again. I used to be able to draw well but it's been a long time. You've really given me a spark! I hope you try again and a future video is "ACCEPTED Sheridan portfolio"!

WOW IT'S REALLY COOL YOU UPLOADED THIS EVEN IF IT GOT REJECTED, YOUR ART IS AMAZING! YOUR PERSPECTIVE DRAWINGS WERE SO AWESOME! THANKS FOR SHARING IT ALL! SUBBED AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MORE OF YOUR WORK!

don't worry, I was rejected from Sheridan last year and went to Algonquin College instead, which is an insanely good animation program and I'm glad i didn't manage to get into sheridan. I have people in my class and in upper years that have transferred from the Sheridan animation or pre-an program and absolutely HATED Sheridan because of how cut throat the environment is. the classroom is more like a competition which means a friendly environment is hard to get, and you NEED those connections in college. I've heard Sheridan is not the best for getting connections in the industry, at least not ones that will last

as someone who really wants to apply to sheridan when im out of secondary school, THANK YOU!!! i'm really really glad you posted this video, because the application process always was a bit confusing to me, but seeing this and in motion just really helped. thank you so so much, and your art is fabulous, it's really inspiring to see. if you choose to apply again, good luck!! i know you're going to go far, no matter what. THANK YOU!

Post sheridan animation grad here....honestly your portfolio is way better than mine was! I'm surprised you got rejected! Maybe the competition really got much higher over the years, especially with amazing drawing tutorials on youtube nowadays. Don't give up!

There are a couple of things I noticed in your art that could help a lot in terms of perspective. At the picture in 3:30 notice how the right leg has a nice 3/4 perspective and the bottom of the shorts outline curves outward. However, we are seeing the inside of his left legs shorts even though his leg is pointed away from us. Instead of making the line curve outwards you made it curve inwards causing a wierd perspective where the leg could be going either direction. If you cover up below the knee the leg points backwards, but if you cover the shorts it goes forward. The legs and arms can be thought of as a cylinder. The same thing can happen if you dont overlap specific lines/parts on the body a certain way, in some cases refraining from putting in overlap, or even adding the smallest amount of overlap. If you are making an object or character do actions that people or animals do, record yourself or another person doing something similar or look up reference. It helps you figure the timing of the action and what would need to happen in order for that action to work. Like in the case of the sponge/juicebox falling after the land, it landed and rose up perfectly and then fell super quick vs if it landed leaning off balance and then fell slow in the beginning and started to pick up speed toward the bottom of the fall. I think what you have right now is good in terms of your line quality, ideas and skill, its just a couple of little things in perspective you have to figure out. I would also suggest looking at LoveLifeDrawing's video 7 Tools to give weight to your figures.

Yo I think you did pretty well tbh. Most porto I've seen on yt scored low on storyboard so it's really amazing you scored close to perfect. Tho I gotta admit the expectations have been growing rapidly (about 5% from last year's). I think they're especially picky when it comes to animation. I saw one high-scoring Sheridan attempter from 2022/2020 and their animation (15/15) was smooth af so I think that's a very important factor in grading. But again, there have been so many talented attempters it's lowkey scary. An 85% porto mentioned having doors and windows for perspective drawings to enhance the proportion so I think you did well on that

You have high potential girl-! Keep going~

My god if THIS was rejected- then what chance do we have? 😭😭 These are beautiful btw! I’m really proud of u for submitting these amazing pieces!

wow!! Your artwork is beautiful, and the positive attitude you have toward your portfolio is really inspiring to see. keep up the amazing work!!

This is INCREDIBLE What?! The scoring seemed so harsh :0 this looked just as good as some of the accepted portfolios. (I'm an amateur so there's bias but... still!)

I admire you for taking the rejection well and still sharing your artworks with us. You have every right to be proud because we can all see the effort you put into these and they all look very professional. Keep it up and you will get accepted next time 👍✨

Congrats for showing your rejected portfolio, that takes a lot of courage

i love your digital portraits so much. they have so much character it's amazing

If this isn't the cutest video RU-vid decided to recommend me out of the blue. Your portfolio is really nice and I hope next time around you have better luck!

i see 19/20 storyboarding as an absolute WIN!!!

Thanks for being helpful and reasonable with your art and self Your resilience is inspiring

Sorry you got rejected, but congrats on summoning the courage to submit a portfolio anyway! Hopefully you’ll get accepted somewhere :)

Watched this a year ago and I had no idea why you didn’t pass. I’ve come back and it all makes sense to my eye now. I don’t notice my progress often, but little things like this are nice.

man your work looks amazing to me!!

Wow I’m really surprised you didn’t get a full score for the hand drawings those were super good- amazing work :)

You seem so cool and your art is so pretty Sheridan really missed out Hope you're doing well and get into a school you like bc you deserve it!!!

Looks AMAZING 🥰

Your environment art is so beautiful

Thank you for showing this! Its very valuable to me (and I'm sure it is to even more people here) :))

This is some cool stuff. Good luck on your art journey!

You should definitely try again, at least now you have it half done, and you know what you're going to need to spend the most time on. Many people have their work rejected multiple times before they reach their goal. I can see how talented you are, and watching this was very informative for me. Keep at it and I wish you the best!

This is a very random comment but I'm an artist also and I once 3D modelled a possum and a koala duo (they were musicians) so seeing the same animals in your storyboard made me very excited haha. I hope you try again next year!

Love your style=3 I am proud of you too=)

Man, if your portfolio got rejected, I'd hate to see what I'd get if I actually applied to Sheridan instead of another school! This is excellent work!!

It'll be an honor to subscribe and watch your art expand! Looking forward to your next video!

Thank you for making this! I'm currently trying to apply, but seeing how many people who apply from ALL OVER THE WORLD makes me super nervous. I physically gripped at my heart over the bear-fish-market drawing. That one has such fantastic perspective, plus the nice shadow-y colours that I haven't seen in an application before. It totally should have gotten full points [in my mind]. I can't stop laughing over your hatred for the possum, though. Best of luck for your future works.

Congratulations on your application! I think you did great and almost got in! Was it your first attempt? Just keep going! Your art already looks amazing! I'm rooting for you! 👏👏👏

No matter how a person can get rejected, they can still try again and somehow, it's alright to take the rejection. I'm a perfectionist who wants to attend my dream school, but afraid of rejection. However, when I saw your video, you made me reminded that I can try again!

I love this video! I was expecting it to be rather self-deprecating, but you’re really positive throughout and you have a wonderful outlook on how you can grow from things that seem like failures! This is also really helpful for me as I work to build my portfolio, and it makes me feel better to see someone promoting the idea that getting a rejection isn’t the end of the world, and can be a good opportunity to learn. My favorite pieces in your portfolio were the sketchbook pages and the interior/exterior backgrounds. Thank you for making such an encouraging and helpful video!

I’d rather try and fail than keep to myself the desire to try. I want to apply to an animation program, not this one but it’s known to be very tough to get into because you need high grades. My grades pretty good, but not very high. Something is better than nothing 🤷‍♀️

(Btw I myself arent a Sheridan grad, my sister was) I’m very impressed by your portfolio! You have a similar style to my sister and it’s very pleasing to my eyes at least. If it helps at all: depending on what character you’re drawing, you can take pictures(with consent) of people with similar frame to help you with visualizing that character facing a certain angle. The storyboard was captivating and I’m happy you got a great score on it. Definitely if you feel up for it, try again!

oh this is wild how you didn’t get accepted, your works are brilliant! Hope you’ll get into other college, wishing you luck with your future applications!

Nice portfolio! ✌

Honestly i believe you will get in on your second try, it's already really good

I never comment so I just wanted to say that I think your art is very good! You should apply again next year and I hope you get in!

Wow 79 is great for first time applying. Im applying for next year so im no expert but i bet you couldve scored like 1 point higher if you submitted the second pass of your hand drawings instead of the digital one. I know 8 out lf 10 is still good but i heard they prefer traditional and your traditional version was very good. I could be wrong aswel but for the shorter life drawings i feel like you focused too much on structure and outside lines. For short they want very gestural lines (im explaining it terribly but proko has good videos on this). I know your figure and hands got pretty good marks anyway but these are just little things i noticed. Also the sponge as reference is the best idea ive ever seen Edit: i thought your adobe scan of hands was a digital pass, ignore my comment about ur hands🫡🫡🫡

tysm for sharing this!! i'm going to college in literally a week and i'm going to be submitting a portfolio my sophomore year, so this was a really good reference for dos and don'ts. even if this didn't get accepted, it's still obvious how skilled you are at what you do, you're incredible!

You have skills apply next year keep applying it doesn't hurt anything.

I hope you are applying again next year, its obvious you know what you need to work on

If I had to give advice I think you would really benefit from looking up line of action and try to start out with extreme poses and then add details, build on top of it. Avoid copying photographic reference and directly drawing silhouettes/outlines because this can cause the drawing to become/look somewhat stiff. As for animation you probably already looked up the 12 principles but just incase I think the 2 most noticeably missing here were the lack of secondary motion and a bit of clumsy spacing and timing which cause an unclear end point. Overall I think there's plenty of potential already there. And I know for sure I'm still relearning/struggling the basics even after already finishing my animation degree it's so much easier said then done after all. We all strife for improvement but no ones road is paved exactly the same.

i cant believe you were rejected. i feel hopeless myself, i bet next year you totally will crush it

I still have no idea why you got turned down, your portfolio looks really nice! I am currently trying to create my portfolio for the next semester and I am super nervous =,

Thank you so much for sharing! Really interesting to see all of your pieces!

Very cool and nice portfolio! :)

I LOVE THESE/THIS

this all looks so good

wow, this looks great! keep it up, i know many of sheridan's alumni didn't make it in on the first try!

I got rejected this year too😢 is way to hard. But your portfolio is really well done😭😭😭

Your voice is so relaxing start an ASMR channel or something and can we get more videos please even if it's just timelapses of you animating and talking over it about your processes and random stuff or a day in the life

I think your work shows a lot creativity and earnest effort pursue a career in Animation. I know it’s pretty competitive to get into Sheridan. Mohawk College in Hamilton is looking for students with potential and you certainly show potential. You would have been accepted at Mohawk 🙂

Great portfolio so far! You're very skilled. One note tho, Don Herzfeldt's Rejected was way funnier. 9/10

I think your art is beautiful, imaginative, and interesting. some technical elements could be improved upon, but honestly I feel like if you spent some more time on the sections you scored low on, you could’ve done much better. Like you got almost perfect on the storyboard, keeping in mind how much time it took. Of course easier said than done, but your talent is there, you maybe just need some polish that comes with consistent work on the portfolio.

Awesome perspectives! I hope you can try again next year

What the hell? This was rejected? I don't know anything about Sheridan, but from this video I must guess it must be insanely competitive to get into. You're already well on your way to developing some really strong skills without even starting the degree yet.

Hey I got 71% myself, so I feel ya! Maybe next year will be our year!

if you want another amazing school I recommend Max the mutt! i got in and im super excited to go :)

I watched quite a few of these and I feel like this a quite RNG based at this point, I wanna see someone who submits the identical pieces twice and see how much their marks differ

This is way higher than my score for me getting in. Our threshold was lower, but I got in right at 61%.

Thank you for sharing your rejected portfolio! It takes courage to do it. I see a lot of potential in your work but I also see why it was "only" about an 80% score. You should definitely try again next time, and in the mean time work on your skills regarding perspective/3D space, which looks like your weakest point judging from the video only. Your turnaround was definitely your weakest point - I'm sure practicing will get you there though! Keep at it and you'll make it. :)

Nice video!

Did they leave you any notes on why they scored it they way they did? Or did they just do the score and toss it back at ya?

I hope you got back in the saddle and went back to upping your skills and style.

Ur vid got spawned in my recomations Here are some suggestions to get better :) (im not in a better/professionell Position, buuut im really good at spotting mistakes etc, so dont take it Personal pls i just want to help) Soo hands first, cz i love to draw hands 😅 Ur hands have both the same, let call it tension? Look u can see that this hand holds the dart in a loose position (but stiff linework), and the release looks nearly the same! If i pinch my finfers together u could see some more "tension" espasially in the linework, can u draw a hand which express the tension and the release a bit better? -not by pose but with the linework /detail/feeling If u know what i mean.. I think the problem there is that one can see that u painted those 2 hands from a picture. Using pictures as refference is Important, but the clean way ur lines look is coused cz u focused too mutch on the positioning etc rsther than linework. Try drawing it by looking at ur real hand, nit at the foto 😊 Rotating character, U made it urself easy with this type of character, which characters are a harder challange when u rotate them? Try to draw smthing like a truck or in ur room and than spin it in your Imagination, with this u train ur brain to think more 3d and in Perspective! U will see, the first ones are crap but after a while its a nobrainer Short Animation I really really like your approich, buut Animations are a lot about tension in movement. Which frames are the keyframes you would need for an animation? You gave each position the same amount of screentime, which is not needed, try the 12laws of animation 4 yourself and check where its whacky. One last thing i noticed in your coloured picsss Okay, u use the same brush for everything try t, and your character are shaded differently and have outlines but the background is more blurred/ with twice the amount of colours AND theyre all in the same hue! Turn ur colored ones in black/white and you will see that the darks/mids/light tines are all really close in the same hue range and have nearly no contrast :o, colours are damn hard but u dont need the whole pallet, maybe limit yourself more so you dont get overwhelmed with choosing the right colors The characters look like an point n click advanture (this is just some thing i noticed) cz the characters are made differently than the background its good/bad in the same time depending what you wanted Lastly, i can see why u scored so high with your personal pages! ❤ Theyre a blast! Whyy? Cz u allow yourself to let ur line speak! I can see where u had fun and you had a good chill day! I love the cars on the first slide, they have character! The second slide is just awesome! Filled with so, much -your strength is eslacially fast drawings which Catch the moment, the linework on those is far batter than the ones where you "try to much" /"tension up" The lines are spot on! Love it! Draw more from real life and memory than i pad, u can really spot the difference cz the ipad delets your own handwriting :). ❤ Loved your video, youre an a really really good way ad i liked your honest aplroach Thank you from a drunk guy who goas sleelin now

Can you please explain more about the story board? Is it necessary to provide a special story for the story board? Does the university give us a picture to write a story for, or do we have to create a picture and write a story for the story board?

for my own knowledge, could somebody say what's wrong with the character turnaround? apart from some slight wonkiness in the hand and shirt collar, it looks pretty good to me! what could be improved here?

Got to say I love how many fat people you draw. Body diversity isn't something I see often w a lot of artists, so its nice to see how you do it and do it so well

To be honest, you have a room to improve. But the potential is noticeable

idk wtf is sheridan but um try universities outside of your country, esp if its the USA. Im in KR rn

they seriously rejected u?? how high are the standards there my GOSH

Some schools require a degree before you apply these days it seems?

Yikes, American and Canadian art colleges have such high standards compared to the art college I'm going to. I got 578 points out of 600 on my portfolio and I am nowhere near as talented as you are. I really do hope you end up getting in tho!

Hi I was wondering what course had you applied for, was it a master's degree or a bachelor's degree, also how many years is the course for? Cool work really liked your perspective drawings!

Yeah I’m definitely not getting accepted if this masterpiece was rejected

Do they set u a time for how long you spend of each drawing in your portfolio? My dream is to get into an art school and I’m trying to prepare myself as much as possible to get there

Best thing about this video is that I realized I would get 2% 😂

So what is your next step wher from you which course you have taken what is your before qualification i also badly need to study this course

I don't get why your character rotation scored so low, it's definitely not the worse character design I've seen

Hi there! I’m a Sheridan Animation Graduate who is currently tutoring hopefuls. I’m working on a video as a free resource to help those specifically applying to the program, I’m on the look out for both accepted and rejected portfolios to use as examples with feedback and I was wondering if you’d be okay with having me include some of your work?

It's very confusing why animation schools exist if they already expect you to be a professional to be accepted. Crazy how much of a scam pursuing art really is. Its not like people who work in the industry have to draw to disney feature film quality anymore since everything is a pre made rig or get stuck doing 3d animation anyway. And every character follow the same bag of interchangable amatuer animation tricks.

makes you wounder why some get in first try others need more practice

So to join a school you need to be a master already?

God bless ❤

sheridan

It is honestly inhumane that you arent able to get into animation school with talent like this. this is why i hate capitalism ughhhhh.

Just for the laughs ill aply there. Im a total bigginner 🤣

It’s weird bc I thought schools/colleges were meant to teach you ??? 🤨

You dont wanna go to sheridan, the city is poo