Introduction(Part 1 of 3) : "Hello!"

Hi people. My name is Henry Thurlow and I`m an animator from New York currently working in Japan. I gave a couple interviews a few months ago about my experiences so far which created a bit of a buzz on the animation/anime websites due to my speaking out about the harsh conditions of the anime industry.

I`m not really planning on updating this blog very often, but from time to time I do want to post something (Information/opinions/rant/etc) that`s just too long for twitter. At those times, I`ll write something here and then link it on my Twitter and Tumblr accounts. (Yes, I do have a facebook account, but I reserve that for only people I know in person.  Sorry.)

For starters, here`s the articles I just mentioned, as well as a Reddit AMA I did a few months earlier. (I still go back and answer new questions from time to time, so feel free to ask me anything.):

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2qprjj/i_am_an_animator_from_ny_who_moved_to_japan_and

http://kotaku.com/being-an-animator-in-japan-is-brutal-1690248803

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmeth/this-american-is-one-of-the-only-non-japanese-working-in-ani#.bgQmZbxBQ

http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/leveraging-english-teaching-to-get-into-the-anime-industry

And for this first post I guess I`ll just introduce myself: 

I grew up in New York. (Staten Island until I was 5, then moved to Suffern NY until College and then to Brooklyn where I worked as an animator before coming to Japan.)

I graduated from DCAD and then PRATT (both in traditional animation) and then after graduation I worked as a freelance animator on various projects (most notably: some Dora the Explorer PC games, Superjail season 1,  and the MGMT:Kids music video) until I moved to Japan in 2009.  (Continued in part 2)