Professional Practise 3: Manchester Animation Festival and Visiting Professionals

 Professional Practise 3
Manchester Animation Festival and Professional Presence

• To develop my professional presence and my specialism, I had attended a series of events at Manchester Animation Festival. I wanted to mention these, as it will be impacting my work going forward and I reference the notes from the festival often, when thinking about my social media and work in the future.
• Here are some of the notes I made on Manchester Animation Festival:

• Prior to Manchester Animation Festival, I also took part in a group commission, with Joseph and Caitlin, to animate for a 4 minute music video, for the group OMGCollective. Joseph managed and directed the whole project, whilst I worked primarily on the rough animation, colouring and compositing. As we only had six weeks to complete the video for them, the animation quality reflects this. Going forward, I think that I would have either charged more for my time, or attempted a different style of animating, to reflect their budget. Puppet-style animation would have probably worked much better, but I have learnt a lot from doing that project of how to value my work. 
• I will be considering this heavily if I were to become freelance, as the project was a real experience of valuing my time and skills.
• Here is the final animation we were able to produce: