Position found on: http://www.theloop.com.au/jobs/
This position would require someone with Intermediate to Advanced skills in both 2D animation. It could require someone with just Industry experience or if possible someone with only the qualifications in Animation and Visual Effects.
Skills, qualifications and experience I have is the Bachelor of arts Animation and Visual Effects Degree and the Masters of Practice Specialization, which involved an animated project produced for 12 months. Also completed a correspondence course in Cartooning and Illustration.
From studying these degrees, I gained skills in various programs including Autodesk Maya, Mudbox, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator and Dreamweaver.
Also studied electives including, Photography, Graphic Design, Illustration and the theory subject Story Writing. These assisted in developing my skills further especially in some of the above programs mentioned and script writing, narrative and character developing skills in regards to Story Writing.
The area I'm strong in is 2D character animation. I also prefer doing frame by frame animation rather than the tweening method found in Adobe Flash and Stencyl. A good example is one of my collaboration projects, "A Lone Scar". This involved hand drawing each frame on paper, scanning it into the computer, putting together each shot in a sequence and compositing it all together. I wish to go back and refine this project so I can include it at it's finest in a showreel.
What I'm lacking in and want to develop is Matt painting, colouring mainly 2D and Web Design. This was my major weakness in the degree and I consider it of importance for finessing a 2D animation and promoting myself.
In regards to Web design, I wish to have a personal website to showcase my skills and promote myself. I could also collaborate with past classmates from animation who speciallize in this field, as what I really need to focus on is animation, namely continuous practice to improve my skills and increase the contents in my showreel especially with recent work.
Other skills I believe would be beneficial for this career pathway is customer service. I gained this from studying Hospitality Operations Certificate III through TAFE. This mainly developed skills in hospitality, waitress and bar work but I believe the customer service aspect will prove useful especially when dealing with clients where you need good listening and verbal skills.
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