Review your presence

 Within my individual practice, I am beginning to discover the career paths I may take moving forward. The calibre of work I want to do is interlinked and spans onto select areas of the production pipeline.

I enjoy creating short, aesthetic 2D animations and illustrations. I credit myself with the ability to quickly generate ideas. This makes me useful for pre-production processes such as animatics, character design and storyboards, especially with my aptitude for quickly drawing by hand.

My latest showreel demonstrates projects I have worked on. The character animation is largely rotoscoped with character layered over real footage. For example, a project I particularly enjoyed was the competition brief for Penguin Books. It gave me the opportunity to imagine characters from many of my favourite books growing up and gave me scope into creating characters and their environments.

Further to this, my showreel demonstrates collaboration with musicians. For animated shorts, projects like music videos and live visuals are areas which interest me. I believe that these areas of interest tie together nicely as I can be involved in pre production in pre production and translating musicians style into a visual language. 

As this showreel is from last year it will need to be updated with more of the collaborations I have worked on.

My presence online is strong in some areas but has the potential to expand into different areas to reach more people and demonstrate my work in a more personalised way. I have managed to gain many of my clients through Instagram, which is an increasingly effective tool for finding work, especially as all animation studios have a profile and could recruit people through social media.

My account is devoted to my practice. I give it a personalised aesthetic by demonstrating all developmental stages of my work from hand drawn concepts to finalised animation. Clients can get a good idea of what skills I have to offer through this. It also acts as a form of CV. The highlights section of the account demonstrates sections from work I have been involved with. For example, art shows I have curated are seen at the top of my profile, alongside illustrations and music based practice.

The work I display reflects my creative ambition. Although it branches into a few areas, they all tie together and can be clearly seen in their respected categories online.

An area to improve on this front is two fold:

Improve LinkedIn account and build a wider clientele - Beyond University this is important because it takes a display of my work in the context of finding jobs and making connections.

Build a website and brand - This could link to my instagram profile, but can be much more personalised with a template and aesthetic that suits me and my style of work.