Brief 1: Research
There is certainly more than enough animations, video games, practitioners and events for me to write about for this brief. In fact, most of them are just in the drafts and all I need to do is just start getting them out faster. In terms of events that I still need to write up one, here's a list (More for my reference), though it really depends if I can hear any of the awful recordings I took with my phone for some of these talks that I attended:
- Manchester Animation Festival
- Leeds Film Festival
- Thought Bubble
And about the studio visits themselves, I am hoping to visit a couple of nearer ones this Easter break as Cara and I need more time to prepare ourselves for the studio visits in London, which will actually take place after we have met the deadlines for both this module and Extended Practice. Though it isn't to say that I can't still write about my process of contacting them on visiting in the meantime.
So, instead of leaving all these studio names on posted notes, here's a list:
- Kilogramme Studio, Manchester's Northern Quarter
- Arcus Animation Studios, Newcastle
- Milkytea Studios, Liverpool
- Fettle Animation, Huddersfield
- Studio Moo, Kendal
- Sumo Digital, Sheffield
- Bumpybox Limited, Cardiff
- Brownbag Films, Manchester
- The LINE, London
- Planet Jump, London
- Electric Lights, London
I was pretty sure that Cara also mentioned wanting to visit the Cartoon Network studios that focused more on post production work, so I might have to ask her more on that one day.
Brief 2: Engage
With the present workload for Extended Practice already stressing me out, I actually realise that I should focus more on competitions that I would enjoy more instead of simply forcing myself to meet a criteria by entering whatever competition I could possibly find. And so, my plan has been simplified to entering tee shirt designs into Qwertee, getting a character design done for a montly competition on Tumblr (Which I could then add to my portfolio). I was also told to revisit some old concept art that I could add to my portfolio (Which I am quite excited about doing now that I think about it). I could also mention some of the commission work that I have been doing for friends as well.
Brief 3: Plan
This 2000 word critical report should focus on my plans after we graduate. Who should I try contacting? What jobs might I apply for? How do I sell myself? Can I perhaps keep in contact with some of the UK studios once I head back? What about animation companies in Singapore? Which ones and where are they? Am I perhaps going to simply freelance for the time being until I find a proper studio job? Another consideration is the fact that I still wish to illustrate some storybook mock ups to send to publishers as I had wanted to after graduating from my illustration course about 3 to 4 years back, though that can thankfully be done online these days.
Brief 4: Position
Perhaps the most straight forward brief, this can go hand in hand with our Extended Practice. Namecards will be easy to design and print. The showreel should be as well (Though I might have get two kinds done, one for animation and one for concept art). I believe the ones that require more attention than anything else however will be my portfolio sites (Tumblr, Cargocollective and Carbonmade and LinkedIn) as well as my web and social presence, that has certainly diminished greatly due to the fact that I have not gone on there for awhile.
It has been mentioned many times that promotional material for our Extended Project will be of relation to this brief. So we might be making posters and whatnot for it (Others are already planning to make cut board cutouts and stickers even). This would certainly be fun once I actually finish the concept artbook itself...
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