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 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 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 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