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On our first "proper" day, our tutor Chris Webster said something that made me feel very powerful as an animator.
A quote from our stop motion tutor, Mary Murphy, as we watched this video (an excellent resource for learning the most important thing for an animator, How Stuff Moves).
Chris has a recurring feature at the end of his lectures called "Fish of the Week" that he uses to make a point: be interested in something besides animation. It doesn't have to be fish, but it could be! If you're interested in something, your work will be interesting.
The following couple of sketches are from a talk with a long-time producer for BBC Bristol, Colin Rose, at The Watershed theatre. I gained a lot of insight into the process of making a film, as I hoped I would, and got lots of good observational sketches out of it...
But the evening took a really surprising turn when...
As a huge Aardman fan (how can you be a British animator and not be an Aardman fan?), I couldn't pass up a chance to grab Peter Lord after the event; he was a very nice, modest chap, gave me some encouraging words for my future, and not only humoured my request to sign my sketchbook, but made this lovely drawing:
All in all, it was a fun evening, and incredibly exciting to meet such a powerful force in British animation so early in my journey into the industry. Also, Sylvain Chomet, a friend of Colin Rose, sent him a video that was screened at the event and gave us the little gem quoted below:
So, yes, I left the theatre very energized to get back to the grind at uni!
I make this pun to everyone I tell about the course, but all my tutors so animated. I suppose you have to be to work in this industry.
The answer to that question, "what do you like?" is "bad puns," especially animal puns.
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