Industries?
When considering industries I could bring my skills to, the games industry is my first pick, having used animation to create an interactive piece and my personal interest in gaming, I really enjoy that extra level of problem solving and feedback for people who get to experience what I make.
Within the purely animation industries I’m more drawn towards series animations, often western kids shows with fun colourful characters and simple storylines or more adult animations which have more complex stories while keeping the visuals cartoonish.
Rumpus Studio
Rumpus is an animation studio based in Bristol, producing adverts, TV shows and games, they’ve worked on projects for companies such as CBeebies, Disney and cartoon network. I feel that me and my style would fit in at Rumpus as many or the style lean more toward cartoonish with exaggerated expressions and dynamic actions within their range of styles. They also produce animations for games such as Battle toads which is the industry I would like to be a part of.
Sun and Moon studios
Sun and Moon are a company in Bristol who produce for animated series such as Maddie and Trix and games like Petal Pinchers, I have followed them through social media and as a company they seem to interact with younger aspiring animators through educational courses and generally being open about the industry.
Their work is a broad range of styles for different audiences, as well as a mix of short form, long form and commercial work to show, which I would find exciting to work on, as I would not be bored. The topics they cover are often children- level stories or educational animations, which would fit really well with my style and interests.
How move forward with these in mind
Being able to enjoy the work I do is important to me, and that means finding work or a workplace that produce work I feel passionate about, many of these companies are looking for people with experience in the animation pipeline as well as the software they work with, so my next step would be to take some courses on different animation software and start to network.