Individual tutorial
Today I had my individual tutorial with Jon, the main focus was on the career development work and my personal showcase.
I honestly haven't even thought about that side of things just yet, I feel incredibly overwhelmed with just my FMP right now so all that on top as well is just allot. Talking things out with Jon helped to ease my mind a bit with regards to the personal showcase as thats another project on top of my FMP. Thinking about it I’m not going to animate anything for it but do some background designs and development instead as a little project as thats the side of the industry I’d like to get into anyways.
For the showcase I’m going to try and develop my technical background skills and that will be the main point of it, Jon sent some helpful links to artists that play around with this side of things such as...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbz1IT_Xizk
and also some screen skills links for the jobs side of the career plan. I’m going to look into job roles and what they require so I can try to build up those skills while doing my personal showcase.
Something I do enjoy doing is shoebox rooms so keeping with a similar theme I think I want to create a series of 2D dioramas that are linked somehow. And for inspiration based on these I can look into visual development artists as its similar to what I’d like to do.
https://www.artstation.com/search?sort_by=relevance&query=vis%20dev
https://www.screenskills.com/job-profiles/browse/animation/pre-production/background-designer/
Jon also showed my this 30 day art challenge thats happening in April which is a good idea for the showcase or to boost up my portfolio more..
https://www.warriorpainters.com/pleinairpril
Also suggested that I do daily studies as just small thumbnails playing with composition, lighting etc which is a good idea to build up from aswell.