What are some (cheap) digital art studios?

Disney or Warner Bros. art studios in toronto?

• Ok so im in grade 11 and im taking Co-op next year and i wanted to go into something to do with art specificly cartoon art. now i have always loved disney's classic movies (The Lion King, Bambi, Great Mouse Detective ect.) and i love warner brothers cartoons like bugs bunny and roadrunner and just all of those awesome cartoons. I'm pretty good at drawing cartoons so i wanted to later maybe think about working for disney or warner brothers as a cartoon artist but now for my co-op i cant seem to find any disney or warner bros cartoon or art studios in Toronto ON. i found WB tower in downtown toronto but it has nothing to do with the art aspect of WB. if anyone knows where i might find these studios it would be very appreciated.

• Answer:

  I'm sorry to have to tell you this but while Disney and WB do have a Canadian presence and Canada has an animation scene which is better described as awesome than lively, both companies put more effort in cheaper places. If you want to do something with cartoon art I strongly suggest you look around for a magazine which likes that kind of stuff, or an arts newspaper. Seriously, you can GET a portfolio together which studios will look at that way, but when Disney bought Pixar they took their legend John Lessiter and made him an Imagineer -- in other words they put him on the theme parks -- and one of the most underrated SF/Fantasy artists of the seventies and eighties, Tim Kirk, has spent the last thirty years designing Disney Theme Park attractions. I'm sorry to sound so negative but seriously, if you want to make even a LIFE try to get illustration chops -- and a portfolio -- not just animation chops and a reel.