Talking with Anima Owner

I was just coming back to my house by taxi last night. I saw a weird ad on the taxi car when it was arriving. I got in the car and i asked what was the ad is all about. He told me that he knows nothing about the ad itself but that he ishappy to make some extra cash by the usage of that ad. He told something little about also making ads back in the day but i did not ask much about it. When we were coming to an intersection he saw a bilboard about the "Rings of Power" and told me that he was waiting for that for a while "we will see if it will be worthy of waiting". I told him that i only watched the trilogy and he said that he was a fun of all of these stuff since he was a kid. Then he turned me and told me that "I was the founder of the Anima". I first thought he tried to say "Anime" so i replied with "Yeah i worked in a few anime works too. Then he said "No i was the founder of the company Anima." I asked "Anima? Anima istanbul?" he said yes. That was quite of a shock.

He then started to talk about the joys of starting out and the cool stuff they were doing with stop motion back in the day and how they went from stop motion to 3D and specialized on that. He told me that he was a Kötü Kedi Şerafettin fan and always wanted to make a movie about it. I said that i liked the movie. He said "I did not. I did not even go to the premiere of the movie, it was never like how i wanted it.". He apparently never liked the Kötü Kedi Şerafettin movie coming out with a general audience tag on it instead of +18 tag and how they bogged down the movie to a basic kids movie. Was certainly a weird moment.

He told me that he quit the company because of the direction that it was taking. He told me that they only care about money and always get people inside just because they are their connections and not because those people are actually capable of doing those stuff. He said that everything in this country lacks merit. Which i agreed.

I then told him that i at some point applied to anima istanbul but could not get in because of my lack of experience. He told me that if i knew him he would get me in and teach me the job inside. Quite an ironic answer from someone who talks a lot about merits in workplaces.

He was talking a lot so i could not talk or ask much to him and the trip was coming to an end. At the end of the line i told him my name and that he can find me on instagram if he wanted to. He then replied that he only uses email and never liked using social media. I told him that i feel the same. However when i asked his name or mail he just fudged it up and ended the transaction. However i actually found the guy on linkedin since there is only two producers in the Kötü Kedi Şerafettin movie and that he has quit the job. Which there is a linkedin account with an unedited entry of working there for 30 years. Which fits perfect since he is a person that does not use ssocial media, he probably just set it up that way when he first used it and never touched it again. His face was the same as the linkedin account and the interview that is done with him was talking about the exact same things he was saying to me. So i probably actually found the guy. I will not share him here tho. Would not be right imo.

Yes that is my weird and interesting taxi trip with a former animation company owner.

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