Interacting with industry
industry was a pretty cool bunch. you shold check them out some time.
This detials my interaction with industry that happened during production for my FMP. Wasn't anything to complex, nice and simple but it's a foot in the door though. And thats a start.
SEED challenge
So here we have the simple little four second animation I made for the SEED tales from the lockdown CHallenge. They challenged animators to come up with a 4 second character driven and based animation about their lives and how they have changed during the lockdown. The prompt so to speak was what has changed in your life be it mundane or not that you have noticed is happening to you and your family during the lockdown. They also specified it had to be 4 seconds long and be to instagram proportions. So I got onto that and started to make my entry. It was initially a little difficult to come up with and idea at first. But eventually it came to me. I haven't really been shaving that much if at all since the lockdown started with me working on my FMP and stuff I haven't really cared that much and haven't had all the free time in the world. Thus my beard has just been getting more and more wild. So I liked the idea of a beard growing out of control. Just some fun exaggeration I employed to make it more exciting than seeing someone with a big beard is to see someone with a beard bigger than themselves. It didn't say it had to loop, but I did want my animation to loop so after it gets shaved off it ends right where it started and the loop continues. Colour wise I made my background weird. It was just me experimenting with different colours and filters. SEED themselves said the more crazy and weird the animation and colours were the better. So I just went with exaggerated colours in a crude reconstruction of my room. Then I animated myself. It's simple, it's basic but it encapsulates the last month of my FMP when I was making it, which is when I made this animation. Additionally I didn't want the four second animation to be complex, it’s character driven, so I made the beard the character instead of me. I then animated the beard on top of myself growing, and then getting shaved, and the cycle repeats. Once animated I then added some basic folly from free sounds online, looking at it now I forgot to colour in the glasses but other then that small detail I'm pleased with it being character based yet simple. Just that little extra on top does go a long way. But yea this was my SEED animation.
So here is the email correspondence between me and the animation company SEED. Short and sweet I know, I know. Point is though that I entered one of their challenges and they submitted my work to their instagram, not sure if they are doing that for everyone or just ones they like but regardless they are recognising me. It’s a foot in the door, some people in the industry have now at least heard my name. And have seen a small sample of my work. That's the big takeaway here. I used the skills I learned from interacting with others in my FMP unit to help inform how to professionally write and communicate with SEED. Given as this was the extent of the correspondence I can't find anything else to say, thus I’m gonna leave it here with what's already been said.