Research for card design

When trying to design my card for networking I may try some of these. If I have to the money to be able to design business card like these. Some are just amazing and engaging.

Show reel for work

This is the show reel I be working with up to the end of specialist study 2, which by then I'll hopefully have another animation to add in. I do want to try and push for the opportunity of my show reel being shown at the flip animation festival at the light house for this year 2012. Get it out there and see what feed back I get from some of the professionals in the industry of animation. My even get a job or two out of it, yoy never know The only thing that I need to do is put it in after effect and try to resize the video so they are all the same format.

Making me look more professional on the net.

Looking to rebrand myself on the internet by linking all my accounts together and starting to show some of my better work.  This is also to try and use the one name making it easier to find me and my work.
         Business card to help promote my name so helping people to find and view my work.  This is my new blog with the my name that is also my new email address.  All of this is so that I hopefully will have a stronger net presence to go forward after Uni.

This new blog still needs some work done on it. I downloaded the html template to have a go at creating my own background for the blog but I think that may have to wait for when I have more time to learn about it. I seen a tutorial on how to save images in photoshop so that they can be used as XmL in a template. Like I say this is something that I will need to have a look at in the future to try and make my blog individual and stand out from the rest.

Animation festival

Need to be seen.  Will look to try and attend these and other animation or film and animation festivals up and down the country.  Will look to create a business card and show reels that I can hand out get information on individual and company's.  These are just some of the animation festival that I will try and attend, even maybe get some work into them for people to see.  That way people may start talking about or even want to talk to me.

http://www.liaf.org.uk/

http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/

http://sohoshorts.wordpress.com/

These are just two group in Birmingham the west midlands form group set up talk for networking.  Those will must be seen at trying to talk to people within the industry.  You never know when a chance meeting could lead to a job.  The other is music festival but with link to the Birmingham Art and illustration communality that I try to help out with some illustration last year.

http://www.animationforumwm.co.uk/

http://www.supersonicfestival.com/

Plan for looking for work in animation industry

Information to help me find a job or apprenticeships

Skillset is a government industry body set up to help skill and training for the UK creative industry.  They run an apprenticeship for people trying to break into the creative industry.

http://www.skillset.org/qualifications/apprenticeships/

The copy rights only go up to 2011 but will keep having a look to see if this continues for 2012.
I also found this on skillset for the Olympics.  Which had an interesting apprenticeship from the BBC all applicant for the apprenticeship ended  on the 16 may 2011.  That's no good to me.

http://www.skillset.org/skillset/press/2010/article_7669_1.asp

Will Continue to look in on both pages to see If they Are still providing apprenticeship for people trying to break into the creative industry.  This an on going process that I will have to keep looking at.  It looks like job will be hard to come by over the next couple of years.  If I could find an apprenticeship, get paid while learning and possible get some contacts at the same time.  That would be great.  That's of cause if I can find an apprenticeship in animation of cause.

Found this to help get some work experience form the BBC.  This page gives you career tip but no animation as I can see.  They probably outsource any animation that they need.   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/work-experience

Skill test myself

What do I know? And what do I need to learn?

2D animation, classic, flash and a little toon boom.  know how to create asset in illustrator and photoshop and import them to flash and toon boom.  Both as jpeg or even better as GNP files which only imports the image without a background.  Very helpfully if you need the image without a white bacground.

Don't know any action script but would need to create games or websites.


Learn how to create 3D image in swift or any other program like photoshop or illustrator for flash.



Create more 3D images in illustrator and photoshop to use in flash.


Developing model making skills in stop motion animation.  Good modeller but need to learn more about the development process.  Been working towards creating silicone models but need to develop on how to create puppets in different techniques.

Need to improve on both painting models and different way on how to make my puppets appeal more alive.  Develop painting on to silicone and latex and all the techniques and process.

Looking for jobs

Looking for jobs

I started looking for jobs within both stop motion and 2D animation.  I am specialising in stop motion but feel I know enough about flash to maybe get some intern

 Northern Ireland isn't too fare away.  The only problem is that this was posted on July 22.  Think this one may have gone.  Would be prepared to travel for work if the money was good.  Maybe not so much if I had kids.

This could be a great gig not for regular work but as a nice income.  It would allow me to employ both stop frame and 2D animation for video

I think that I really want to try and work some flash animation work into my stop motion to keep on improving my knowledge of flash.  Also look more at toon boom animation programs. 

My inspirational artist is Nick Park.

My inspirational artist is Nick Park.
And why Nick park I hear you say.  Because when most of you were not even a twinkle in you mum and dads I was watching Wallace and Gromit grand day out.  Back in the day when you could still watch Wallace and Gromit on the BBC.  This Nick Park started back when he was at the National film and television school but later finish working on it part time while working for aardman.

 A Grand day out won the BAFTA for best animated film in 1990 which beat creature comforts in the same category.  Though creature comforts bested a grand day out at the Oscars.  You don't see Nick Park complaining as he was the driving creative force for both animation.
 
Creature comforts a project for lip synch.  5 minute films  commissioned by channel 4 to explore real characters mixed with there voices.  Creature comforts has been called one of the greatest animated films of all time.

  





The characters of Wallace and Gromit are amazingly animated with Wallace being a craze English inventor who love cheese.  You wont see that in anything else as is just so British.  And Gromit with no dialogue but beautifully animated showing so much emotion with just his eye, eye brow and arms.

Nick Park is a great fan of beano drawing from it for some of his inspiration like in the wrong trousers, with the winding street that Wallace walks around into the distance.  The clay animation which Nick park has traditionally used isn't the easiest to animate, and Wallace and Gromit have come a long way since those early day.

Even though Aardman were an imagining animation company with the likes of morph I would say that with Nick Park they Wouldn't have been as successful.  Without Nick Park they could still be around in today market but wouldn't have been so well know throughout the world.  Nick Park is also a great example of what you can achieve with a little imagination and a lot of hard work.