Well it has certainly been a while since my last post on the blog, however, a lot has happened for me within the past year.
After my graduation I have been looking for full time employment within the animation industry whilst still working on some of my own projects and freelancing for companies.
I had been in talks with an employer from Antyx animation and had gained some freelance work from them. They had given me a poem which featured 8 characters of dragons, with a few words describing their personalities. From that, I sketched and designed all characters and storyboarded the poem, how I envisioned it would look.
The company was pleased with this and I then animated the poem, whilst keeping the company up to date with the progress. I kept it black and white and chose to colour it lastly, as I felt this was easiest to spot errors when revising what I had created.
The final animation turned out quite well in my opinion, the next stage of this is to publish stills in the animation for children's books, aimed towards the pre-school generation.
I had worked for another company, freelancing, who were actually in University with me a few years ago. We were to animate characters which were going to be placed as segments throughout a low budget documentary. I was given the task to animate one of the main characters in "Marty Goes To Hollywood" and I worked on a few other characters too. These 2D segments lasted around 30 seconds and actually brought the documentary to life. The film itself was nominated for a BAFTA at the Glasgow New Talent 2015 for "Best Factual Film" and won! Utterly massive considered I had the pleasure to work on it, huge add for my CV!
I also got an interview for an animator position within a company in Manchester called SDMC Productions, to work on a project for an 8 week contract which is a 2D series that is going to feature on Comedy Central's Adult Swim,
I actually was successful and got one of the 5 positions in the team (3 animators and 2 background artists) which is some achievement for my first ever job since leaving University. Totally over the moon! The job was scheduled to start in February however, it has been held back for quite some time and I am now waiting for a start date for the role.
