At the news from Kane that we were going to be included in this months Animation Forum West Midlands Newsletter, I took the initiative to revamp my showreel. The older one worked well for my graduation but I needed something a little better if it was going to be shown to potentially hundreds of people in one day. We are also going to be featured again in the November newsletter - more free publicity! Here is the new showreel...
Soundtrack: Mithras - Lords and Masters
22 October 2010
18 October 2010
The TARDIS
I've spent today modeling Dr Who's TARDIS. The decision isn't final yet whether I am going to use as a prop it for my next animation or simply render it nice and include it in the portfolio. But either way I hope to have it finished well. I'm also trying to keep it low poly for game use if that ever comes about.
Update: 22/10/10
I am currently in the middle of texturing the tardis and animating so it's going to be a while before I show progress.
Soundtrack: Cheer Chen - Self
Update: 22/10/10
I am currently in the middle of texturing the tardis and animating so it's going to be a while before I show progress.
Soundtrack: Cheer Chen - Self
16 October 2010
Long Time No Post
I went to China recently and really wanted to keep a blog with pictures and events that took place for the four weeks, but unfortunately they don't allow Google blogging!! As rubbish as that is, I am able to go through all 5000 pictures and select a few of the really great ones - not picked them all yet though. So here are some delightful looking pictures I took when I went to the far East. I was there for just under 4 weeks with my lovely girlfriend and I can't wait to go back. We went to Beijing, Shanghai, Wuzhen, Hangzhou and Xi'an.
Soundtrack: Cheer Chen - The Meaning of Travel
Soundtrack: Cheer Chen - The Meaning of Travel
14 October 2010
Interviews...
...you don't have any for ages and then all of a sudden you get them all at once!
After many, many... many months of job hunting I signed up to jobseekers benefits. After another month since then I was finally given the interviews I was hoping for. The first one came from The Character Shop in Birmingham. This will be a junior animator role working on Zoo Troop III for Haven Holiday Camp. The interview consisted of a 3 day test by animating a 14 second piece of dialogue of the main character; Rory the Tiger. Fully modeled and rigged in 3ds Max with Biped. I finished on the morning of the forth day before I had to get my train back home and was accepted to be on the team for a 3 month contract when it starts.
I got the train back home and then hopped on another train to London. This time I was going for an interview at Prime Focus in Soho. I arrived very early so I had time to relax which was much needed in the busy area of Soho. I got to the interview 15 minutes early as planned and waited for my two interviewers.
There was a bit of confusion at the beginning. You see, someone in HR told the interviewers that I had applied for the Data Operator role when in fact I had applied for the Junior Support Technician. So the questions they were asking and the answers I was giving were conflicting in both of our minds. Soon they realised we were on totally different tracks and they began to interview me for the role I actually applied for - leading on from the other role as not to repeat the same questions.
In the end it worked out quite well, because they have put me forward for both of those roles - so it was almost like hitting two birds with one stone!
Data Op isn't something I particularly like the sound of, but that's only because I wasn't sure what that was until my interviewers started saying "You know this is a really boring job" and "You will be punching numbers and data all day long in a dark dingy cave with no outlet for creativity"... okay the dark dingy cave thing I made up... but that's what it felt like. The Junior Support Technician role is perfect for me though. I've done it before and as it's a Junior role I won't be expected to know everything and I already have a willingness to learn. So I can't see a problem there.
Anywho, my four day interview week went very, very well and it's only a matter of time now before I can start working again and making £££££!
Location: Cafe Libre - Soho, London
After many, many... many months of job hunting I signed up to jobseekers benefits. After another month since then I was finally given the interviews I was hoping for. The first one came from The Character Shop in Birmingham. This will be a junior animator role working on Zoo Troop III for Haven Holiday Camp. The interview consisted of a 3 day test by animating a 14 second piece of dialogue of the main character; Rory the Tiger. Fully modeled and rigged in 3ds Max with Biped. I finished on the morning of the forth day before I had to get my train back home and was accepted to be on the team for a 3 month contract when it starts.
I got the train back home and then hopped on another train to London. This time I was going for an interview at Prime Focus in Soho. I arrived very early so I had time to relax which was much needed in the busy area of Soho. I got to the interview 15 minutes early as planned and waited for my two interviewers.
There was a bit of confusion at the beginning. You see, someone in HR told the interviewers that I had applied for the Data Operator role when in fact I had applied for the Junior Support Technician. So the questions they were asking and the answers I was giving were conflicting in both of our minds. Soon they realised we were on totally different tracks and they began to interview me for the role I actually applied for - leading on from the other role as not to repeat the same questions.
In the end it worked out quite well, because they have put me forward for both of those roles - so it was almost like hitting two birds with one stone!
Data Op isn't something I particularly like the sound of, but that's only because I wasn't sure what that was until my interviewers started saying "You know this is a really boring job" and "You will be punching numbers and data all day long in a dark dingy cave with no outlet for creativity"... okay the dark dingy cave thing I made up... but that's what it felt like. The Junior Support Technician role is perfect for me though. I've done it before and as it's a Junior role I won't be expected to know everything and I already have a willingness to learn. So I can't see a problem there.
Anywho, my four day interview week went very, very well and it's only a matter of time now before I can start working again and making £££££!
Location: Cafe Libre - Soho, London
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