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| Studio Bones Studio Madhouse Studio Laika |
Studios I tried contacting with emails:
- Studio Bones
- Studio Madhouse
-Studio Laika
-Disney Studio
Animations I have seen and enjoyed from these studios:
Examples of animations from Kilogramme:
As shown by the only responses I got
contacting studios will be difficult since I resorted to contacting studios I
don’t know much about. The only response from a studio that I have seen various
animations from (Studio Madhouse) couldn’t take a moment to answer a few
questions in the first email I sent them. The second email I sent didn’t
provide any help or relevance to my questions, besides directing me to their
site for “updated recruitment” which I might try to explore. I might need to
consider, join and use other forms of media in order to contact studios and
practitioners which might have been my down fall as I only used emails and
twitter and had to make do with responses from a studio I don’t follow. I might
work on this over the holiday to see if I can get any responses, especially
from the studios I am more interested in. However, studios like Bones will be
difficult being a studio from another country as there was probably some
language barrier if my emails didn’t reach them. Either I have to explore other
more international studios or find a way to communicate with studios like Bones
more effectively.
With the only response I got from Jon
Turner, director at Kilogramme (a Manchester animation studio), I managed to
get some insightful feedback. Similar to what I remember from Fraser Maclean’s
experience of getting employed during his talk at LCA Jon said he looks “for a
good showreel
or portfolio”. This informs me as long as I present work an industry finds
interesting I will find a place with no problem. However, I didn’t receive as
much interesting and useful information. Either I have to specify my questions
more effectively or come up with other questions of what I want to know and
should know. This can be something I can work on over the holiday.
Jon also started informing me about the
important stages “to be a character animator”. This tells me Kilogramme focuses
on creating engaging characters, taking inspiration from the “Disney book ‘The
Illusion of Life’”. Otherwise this is already information I am learning on the
course since the start of my year and overall isn’t exactly useful for my
learning process.
I need to find and contact other
practitioners to see what they can tell me that I already don’t know, in order
to explore my options when it comes to finding a career in the creative
industries. What information and work I haven’t found out now and haven’t fully
completed I will try to work on over this holiday.
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