The beginning

I went to school to study animation. Instead of being taught personally I was handed books and told now do it. I'd do it, hand it in. It would be graded, and criticized accordingly.
Lesson 1- Bounce a ball in 2d. Bounce a ball in cg. Roll a ball in 2d. Roll a ball in cg. Here are some diagrams of how Preston Blair did it, here are some diagrams of how Richard Williams did it.
Lesson 2- Make a flour sac jump and apply what you learned on the ball over to the flour sac in 2-d heres some videos of what other students did.
Lesson 3- Do a vanilla walk, heres some examples of how Richard Williams does it. Do a personality walk, heres some more examples of how Richard Williams does it.
Lesson 4- Do a run, heres some example of how Richard Williams does it. Do a personality run.......you get the point. Well on this one they managed to find a tutorial someone else from some other country published online, and tossed some Williams examples in it as well.
Lesson 5- See lesson 4, but do it with animals.
Almost half a year had past of this, and my only real mentor was a book that cost me about 20 bucks from amazon. Had I really been duped into spending about 10000 dollars for 6 months of education by a 20 dollar book....................yes.
After looking into it, I discovered that this was pretty much the case in a large majority of schools. Animation schools were literally charging students an arm and a leg, for a stall with a computer, an animation table, and little bit of time with a teacher who knew his way around an animation book. I had all of these things in my bedroom already!
Im not bitter about my school experience, I did meet a lot of great students of like mind. Random amazing people from the industry at times would stop by and look at work and comment etc.....Which was really the only selling feature the school had, was the cameo appearances by some super cool animators. The experience as a whole wasnt all bad. We went on to learn a small amount of modelling, a small amount of rigging(by someone who was not even qualified to work in the industry with the knowledge he possessed), and from there used what we had made to make our own short films. Which was definitely a great learning experience.

So I am now working part time,(outside of the animation industry) and I figure I am going to brush up on my skills as an animator in my spare time at home.
My goal is to go through the entire Animators Survival Kit, but not in 2-d, every exercise I am going to attempt to do in cg. I realize a lot of the things covered in there may not be able to be done in cg, so I may have to omit certain things.
Hopefully this will make me a lot better of an animator, and if anyone decides to follow my progress through the book, will help them as well.