So its been a while since I last updated this properly, loads has happened in that time. I'm writing this sat in a hotel bar drinking an ice cold pint celebrating getting a 2.1 for my degree and starting my new job as an animator at Rare.
To say I've been lucky is an understatement, admittedly I've worked hard this year but it's all coming together at last. The month or so before hand in was unbelievably stressful and I still cant watch the film without cringing at glaring mistakes and animations that are a little too rough around the edges.
The grad show came and went and I'll post photo's from that once I've been reunited with my camera, which is in one of many boxes 116 miles away in Cardiff. The show itself was a success, was a good chance to see people from my original year before I disappeared to do the animation internship at Lionhead Studios as well as getting to see my film on the big screen, the biggest surprise came the next day when I got a mention on the ffresh review of the screening and show.
Whilst all of this was going on I'd been applying for various jobs and snuck off for an interview at Rare in Birmingham, within the space of 7 days I'd been offered the job, moved to Cardiff, and then frantically raced upto Birmingham to start work as an animator/motion editor.
I'm still not entirely sure as to the purpose of this blog post gradutation, in some respect it will always be my production journal for the grad film and a place to ramble about the various projects I'm working on. So far there's been talk of working on a game with Chris Caesar, vague discussions of a windows phone game with Megan and Jacko once Tea and Techno have finished competing at Dare to be Digital, as well as wanting to get my reel vastly improved to send out after my time here at Rare. It seems the work really never ends but there's so many cool things going on I really cant complain. While I try figure out the best way to keep working on my reel (separated from pc whilst on the short contract at rare) and juggling the other projects I'm shortly going to be posting various things over at #AltDevBlogADay but it may be a few weeks before that gets off the ground as internet access and time have been in fairly short supply...
Whilst all of this was going on I'd been applying for various jobs and snuck off for an interview at Rare in Birmingham, within the space of 7 days I'd been offered the job, moved to Cardiff, and then frantically raced upto Birmingham to start work as an animator/motion editor.
I'm still not entirely sure as to the purpose of this blog post gradutation, in some respect it will always be my production journal for the grad film and a place to ramble about the various projects I'm working on. So far there's been talk of working on a game with Chris Caesar, vague discussions of a windows phone game with Megan and Jacko once Tea and Techno have finished competing at Dare to be Digital, as well as wanting to get my reel vastly improved to send out after my time here at Rare. It seems the work really never ends but there's so many cool things going on I really cant complain. While I try figure out the best way to keep working on my reel (separated from pc whilst on the short contract at rare) and juggling the other projects I'm shortly going to be posting various things over at #AltDevBlogADay but it may be a few weeks before that gets off the ground as internet access and time have been in fairly short supply...
