Assignment 2 – Industry Facing Material
—CV— —Cover Email— —Showreel—
Assignment 1 – Reflective Research Blog
—Roles within Animation— Concept Artist: A concept artist creates a variety of initial ideas for a project which portrays different looks and styles that the project could use based off of the story created by the writer. Character Designer: A character designer creates model sheets and finalised designs based off of what the concept artistContinue reading Assignment 1 – Reflective Research Blog
Week 12 – Formative Feedback
—Meeting with Aodhan— Today I had a meeting with Aodhan at 12:00 in the Teachers lounge to review my CV, Cover Email and Showreel. It went well and he gave me some really helpful feedback that I feel will help me to improve my work before the deadline on Monday the 13th. —CV— –Continue reading Week 12 – Formative Feedback
Week 10 & 11
Class: There was no class for the next 2 weeks as scheduled formative feedback classes were taking place and mine is going to be held in week 12 on the 10th of December at 12:00pm with Aodhan. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Homework/Assignments : During these weeks I focused on completing my CV, writing my Cover E-Mail andContinue reading Week 10 & 11
Week 9 – Mock Interviews
This morning, at 10:00am, I was due to be part of the panel but was moved up as the interviewee never showed. During the wait ‘Nant Studios’ came in and had a look at our current progress on our environment models for Animation Strategies. —Interview with Michael and Aodhan — At 11:00am I becameContinue reading Week 9 – Mock Interviews
Week 8 – Preparing for your Interviews
Class: This morning Dr Chris McHugh came in and gave a presentation on studying abroad and provided a few reasons why we should consider it. He also covered why we may be holding us back from studying abroad and gave a few schemes that we could sign up with like “Study USA” or “Eramus+” Continue reading Week 8 – Preparing for your Interviews
Week 7 – Cover E-Mail, Contacting and communicating with employers & Portfolio Design
Class: We first received a lecture about cover letters from Henry which covered what a cover letter is and what should be on it, what sort of information we need to research and gather and what it should and should not look like. What is required in the first section of the cover letter:Continue reading Week 7 – Cover E-Mail, Contacting and communicating with employers & Portfolio Design
Week 6 – Graduate Transitions
Class: Donna Mageenan, a guest speaker, joined us for class and did a workshop on wellbeing after Alec went over what we had to do to prepare for the mock interviews in two weeks. Alec told us that we will receive more information from Henry on Monday about the mock interviews. We will needContinue reading Week 6 – Graduate Transitions
Week 5 – Job Contracts / Freelancing / Placement Talk
Class: Alec gave a presentation on job contracts and freelancing. It covered what you should expect from a job contract and what it should have, pension and what is expected when it comes to experience and no experience. —Exercise — After the first presentation we were tasked with finding areas of concern on aContinue reading Week 5 – Job Contracts / Freelancing / Placement Talk
Week 4 – Guest Animation Career Talks
Class: For this week we had a few guest speakers: – Zoe Woods – Blue Zoo (UU 2018 grad) – Aisling McElroy – Italic Pig – (UU 2018 grad) – Greg Woodcock – Dimension Studio (Swansea 2008 grad) Zoe wanted to work in the game industry and has worked on many different shows asContinue reading Week 4 – Guest Animation Career Talks