A few years ago I was lucky enough to be in the first graduating class of Animation Mentor. Before the school opened a bunch of animators and myself would hang out in the CG Talk message boards speculating on all things animation. During this time I started drawing this comic strip called F5 (named after the browser hot key we were all obsessively pushing when waiting for Animation Mentor to go live). After posting several of these comics to CG Talk the founder of the school and then Pixar animator Bobby Beck sent me a message. Mr. Beck asked if I would like to do an F5 comic each month for the Animation Mentor newsletter. Soon after picking my jaw off the floor I agreed. Life changed pretty drastically for me towards the end of animation school. While I was not in a position to move to the Bay Area and begin applying for jobs, I am happy to say I finished out the comic and graduated from AM with a certificate of Advanced Studies in Character Animation. Time went on and I forgot about the F5 comic. A year or so after graduating I suffered a dual hard drive failure which wiped out all of my animation work and my F5 comic source files. Luckily, Animation Mentor had a back up of almost all of the images. While I don’t animate all that much anymore I did want to include some of the comics I did for Animation Mentor. The jokes are fairly inside and apparently mildy amusing at some point in time. Enjoy.

*Update:  I found the first 5 comics from the series and have added them. The below should now be the complete set.

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