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I'm in school for animation, and have an idea for a DVD-based reel/resume combo. The menu would have sections for a demo reel, short films, artwork, and on-screen resume. I haven't felt ready enough to send things to studios until recently, so I don't have much experience with the application process. I know it's more common to send reels through DVD anyway now, but is combining everything too much? Should I include a paper resume just in case? Have people been doing this sort of thing already? I don't know what sending a reel/portfolio/resume hybrid would come off as, but I would hope it'd be something like "organized and simple", not "dumb and pretentious".
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I graduated from SVA in May and became jaded about my animation degree almost instantly. While I gained a lot of technical/artistic knowledge, I have little to no desire to be an actual animator. You either have to be very, very talented to make a name for yourself, and/or be willing to do a lot of work for nothing. I am neither. Also, working from job to job without knowing what the near future holds just isn't the kind of thing I want to do. Part of me wishes I had gone for illustration instead, but that might just be a grass-is-greener type mentality. Plus I'd be in the same boat. I ended up working with the administrative side of my school a lot and took more of a liking to being an office jockey. My resume is full of teaching/administrative work, but I'm worried that there might be some kind of BFA stigma when applying for non-creative jobs. All that being said, I definitely don't want to abandon my creative ambitions. I'd hate for it to turn into a bored housewife hobby type thing. Part of me feels like I am abandoning my ~hopes and dreams~, but stability is also important to me. Has anyone had something similar happen to them? How did you keep pursuing art without it being the main focus of your career?
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Aug 14, 2009 16:13
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ceebee posted:This is the thing. Usually if you're doing art you should be willing to eat sleep and breathe art. I'm in the opposite position as you, and I used to work office/desk/customer related job constantly while only being able to have art as a hobby. These days I'm ready to really settle down and get my portfolio going good enough to where I can land an entertainment industry job. From there work my rear end off because unlike office jobs you actually have something to show for you work, besides some bonus or a pat on the back from your boss. I have my BFA. I said I graduated in my first sentence. I also said I don't really see myself in the animation field, so the "you don't deserve it" comment was unnecessary. And I did do my best. I lived in front of a Cintiq for ten months making my thesis film. A lot of my peers blew my film out of the water with their own, but I'm fine with that because I knew I gave it my best shot. I'm very grateful for the experiences/skills I gained at school, which is why I don't regret getting into the program. It's just when graduation time came around I thought, "Well, that was cool, what's next?" I guess the solution to my problem is to just keep drawing, keep doing art, keep hanging out with my incredibly talented friends, etc. That way, I won't feel like art is a thing of the past, or that I'm not "allowed" to do it because the financial factors of my life might be art free. I guess I just don't want to admit that I'm inevitably downgrading it to a hobby, but nothing's ever set in stone.
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Aug 15, 2009 23:54
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