Monday of Creative Futures.

So it is that time again of the year when we have a Creative Futures week. This is when the University gets a wide range of speakers in who are professionals in their field, and we sit there in awe and pretty much wish to become them some day.

Monday
 
The first talk that We all had to go to was the opening Speech his was pretty much showing us figures about artists and their employment and the soon opening of the new Building, which does sound really intriguing and i personally can't wait to have a nosy around and see which new facilities i can get my hands on. Not that interesting in my opinion but it was the welcome and laying the criteria out for the first years who had not done this before.

"Passions and a Passport"
Next up was a talk from the very talented and very experienced Animator named Barry Purves. If you haven't seen his stuff before I urge you to check out his Complete works of Shakespeare in 5minutes animation really great.  Here he talked about many of his influences which was a very wide range of mediums from Puppets to Dance and even Theatre. This all helped towards movement and knowledge of the body which is something i found quite interesting as i like to draw quite figurative work and it was good to see from where you could get inspiration I do honestly which my recorder had come through so i could remember a lot more.  A very pleasant man to listen to and i took a lot out of it. 

"From commercials to feature films: Life as a professional animator"
This was the next Talk i chose to attend after lunch, Although i am mainly an illustrator i have always liked 2D animation the thought of your drawings coming to life and moving around sounds really appealing. Que a talk from someone with relative experience in this Harriet Buckley who originally started off as an Illustrator and branched off into 2D animation.  This was quite interesting to hear of the Different Jobs that go towards making a feature film in this case Harriet worked on the animated film 'The Illusionist.' With a company called INK Digital a company based in Scotland. With this company they had several projects, one which included working with the Scottish Government to reduce knife crime. To be honest this wasn't to relative to what i want to do but it was interesting to hear and it could be a possible career path for me in the future.

Showreel, portfolio and CV: advice for finding work.
This was a talk given to us by Harriet Buckley again and was giving us advice on what to show in CV's aiming them towards possible employers and if you're an animator what to put in your showreel.

Over all this day although not relevant had its moments and i took something from each talk.