Animation Futures and Destinations

This module seeks to prepare you for entry into the design profession or postgraduate study, and aims to develop your awareness of the range of career and postgraduate opportunities available. You will be able to use your research file as a resource to enable you to make realistic, well informed decisions in relation to your future career intentions. The process will provide a platform to prepare you for the transition from undergraduate study to the next stage in your career. Lectures will include techniques to present your work professionally including: - action planning, C.V preparation and presentation skills, seeking out contacts, the jobs market, employment opportunities, Personal promotion, interview techniques, portfolio surgery, responding to job advertisements, the development of contacts. You will be encouraged to look at a range of professional and personal development opportunities including postgraduate study, short courses, applying for grants and enterprise initiatives, travel and work experience.

Students will be encouraged to develop a understanding of the different production processes should be sufficient to ensure that they can make an 'informed' choice about which processes they wish to pursue throughout their remaining studies and future careers. Through a process of self-evaluation, students will develop a detailed awareness of their strengths and abilities in animation, and have realistic expectations as to their future careers. They should have an understanding of what employment and other opportunities are available to them, and what they need to do to secure those opportunities.

Students will prepare both a screen-based presentation and a show reel / portfolio of their best work to date and present these to the module tutors and award manager. Formats and media to be used will be clarified on an award by award basis.

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*UPDATE: 22/09/14

* Presentation done "however I see fit"
- 15 slides - 100 words each, if slideshow

Falling Man Animation blog


Plans

Short plans:-

- Graduate with high grades

Medium plans:-

- Learn to drive
- Work more with Carse & Waterman to increase skills in animation and social interactions with clients.
- Learn more about 3D software e.g. 3DSMax, ZBrush, Maya, Mudbox etc
- Learn more about 2D software e.g. Flash

Long plans:-

- Get a render farm - own a render farm to increase render time for any animations and/or image rendering.
- Finish Personal projects - continue and finish own projects in any free time and advertise skills and work with them (stories that I write can be shown through animations/models)
- Increase rigging skills

*UPDATE: 20/10/14

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