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Since I had my one to one tutorial last week, this week was spent working on my cover email, CV and showreel based on Alec’s feedback from the tutorial. For my cover email, it is now a combination of the original cover email and the cover letter I had completed previously since Alec said IContinue reading Week 11: Finishing Assignment
During my one to one tutorial, I showed Alec my cover email, CV, showreel and cover letter. I was wondering what the difference between a cover letter and cover email is since we only have to do a cover email for submission, and he said they’re pretty much the same thing but that it’s usuallyContinue reading Week 10: One To One Tutorial
During my mock interview, the panel consisted of Alec and Sorcha with Alisa being the student on the panel after her own interview. They asked me what role I was interviewing for and I said 3D animator before they asked me some questions from the presentation slides such as “can you give an example ofContinue reading Week 9: Mock Interviews
During class we had a talk from Chris McHugh about studying abroad during placement year, but although this wasn’t relevant to me since I’m not planning on studying abroad it was still useful to know about the different schemes I could apply for such as Erasmus+, Study USA and ISEP (International Student Exchange Programme) toContinue reading Week 8: Preparing For Your Interviews
During class Henry gave us a presentation on cover letters and cover emails and said that cover letters are to expand on what is in your CV and shouldn’t be a direct copy and paste of it as it’s meant to complement the CV. The cover letter is supposed to give more details about yourselfContinue reading Week 7: Cover Email/Contacting & Communicating With Employers/Portfolio Design
During class we were given information on the mock interviews we have on the 19th November in order for us to get practice on interview situations. We were told to have a job role in mind to answer questions on and the panel will base their questions around the job role, and we were alsoContinue reading Week 6: Graduate Transitions – Donna Mageean
During class we were given a presentation by Alec about job contracts including freelance and a talk about placements. We were warned that typically we have to work at a studio for a number of years to get a permanent contract rather than a temporary one, but sometimes it’s possible if you have a certainContinue reading Week 5: Job Contracts/Freelancing/Placement Talk
During class we had talks from Zoe Woods, who graduated in 2018 and is currently working with Blue Zoo as a layout artist in London, Aisling McElroy, who also graduated in 2018 and is now working at a production coordinator with Italic Pig in Holywood, Greg Woodcock, who graduated in 2008 and works as aContinue reading Week 4: Guest Animation Career Talks
During class Alec went through some of the showreels we found and gave his opinions on them based on the animations and editing. There were a variety of showreels including solely 2D animation, a mix of 3D and 2D and solely 3D modelling/animation, and the showreels would be edited differently with the length of eachContinue reading Week 3: Showreels
During class Alec went through our blogs to see what entry level jobs we were able to find, and said that if a job says it requires 1 to 3 years of experience sometimes you don’t need to have this much experience if your work is good enough which is something to keep in mindContinue reading Week 2: Job Role Seminar & CV Design