Animation Year 2 Introduction

Today I attended an introduction for year 2 of my Animation course. I got told about a lot of interesting events and information which will help me for the upcoming year. I learnt about events such as, Media Mashup, Motion North, Waterside and Manchester Animation Festival. All of these events are focused around animation and they will help me greatly. I also recieved information about the perks and advantages for being in university. Some of these perks consisted of, Lynda Software Tutorials, LinkedIn Learning to get course certificates for my CV. Unitemps if also helpful along with beingable to download licences of office. There are also academic support llibrarians to help academic writing, andthe BA program handbook which gives me a lot of information about the course as well. Overall this session was extremely helpful and it benefited me greatly.

Work Experience At Factory Create

Today I had a day of work experience at a company near me called Factory Create. I had this as a placement between 10am-6pm and I learnt a lot about the company and how production worked for a stop motion studio.

I started by getting shown around one of their studios which was where the majority of all the stop motion development took place, I saw all the different rooms where the production was in progress. I saw the storage rooms where they keep used sets and props, the prop development rooms where they paint and improve props, the studio where they take the shots of the animation they are producing, plus many more.

The company had multiple warehouses where they created different things for the animations. Another warehouse which they owned had a bunch of 3D printers in it where they printed out parts for character and props they used, they also had a metal room where they cut and modified metal into specific chosen shapes. Another warehouse that I visited was filled with computers and focused on the CGI and special effects side of the production. The people working there were focusing on blending in the mouths of any characters which needed it, removing any green/blue screen and replacing it with a suitable background and doing anything else which would have been difficult or nearly impossible with just stop motion.

After getting shown around and learning a lot about the company I was asked to firstly sort out some old props and organize them with another member of staff so they were easier to identify by colour. After doing this I was moved onto painting some of their props which was enjoyable and also onto sanding down parts of characters which had lines which weren’t wanted on them after coming out of the printer.

Overall I really loved my time at Factory Create and would love to maybe have a longer period of time where I could get work experience from them.

 

Images Of Factory Create:

The Door:

Sets Used For Animations:

Production Rooms:

Welcome To My Animation Blog

I am Braydon Moreton, on this blog which I am creating and updating regularly I am going to be making posts talking and containing information about what I am doing on my animation course. I will be using this blog to note down and record the key and interesting things which I am doing while on this course.