I am lucky to be born in Montreal, where we have very good animation schools - which are publicly funded - so I had access to affordable classes. Why did you want to start your own YouTube channel? I think that perspective is part of how I can help. Sometimes it’s: “Why did you do this that way?” I jump between studios and schools every week, and sometimes in Vancouver they do things a certain way, in France they do things differently, but when you get to jump around the world, you get to see how everyone works. When I teach someone how to use Harmony, I love seeing how they use the software. When I first learned the software, I was mostly on my own. Oh yeah! All these practices are a result of me teaching in studios for years, and the issues I encounter are things I have seen or have also done when I was just starting out. That’s the video I watched just before this interview! You walked the audience through the logic of: “If you do it this way, you get aliasing, and if you do it a different way you solve that problem but then if you try to reverse it it doesn’t work…” I want to teach artists how to problem-solve in the software. If you connect it to these nodes, you will get a perfect seamless arm.” Or I could take five minutes to explain how the nodes interact, so you could make a perfect seamless arm on your own, or a seamless leg, or a seamless torso, or a seamless whatever-you-want-to-do. I could take 30 seconds and tell you: “This is an auto patch. I’ll say, “I’m going to destroy this, and then we’re going to build it again together!” Sometimes in my videos the audience will see the final piece, but I won’t immediately reveal how it was made. The best way to learn is by actually going through that process.

I noticed that instead of immediately showing viewers the correct way to do something, you often walk viewers through almost a process of trial-and-error.

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