Manchester Animation Festival

Manchester Animation Festival was excellent I enjoyed every moment, the animations and talks over all were very well presented but there were some animations which were questionable because I felt that they had very poor stories and the way in which they were presented did not appeal to me, this was based on my personal taste. I didn't network as well as I did at Thought Bubble mainly because a lot of animation studios did not specialise in 2D which is the style in which I prefer to animate. I did How ever managed to talk to try out the Hoodoo VR game, it was great the gaming experience made me feel like I was apart of the game and the character design and scenery was amazing. BlueZoo was the only animated company which interested me the most because they had a varied team of animators and illustrators who possessed similar skills to me, they are a very expressive and varied company, I talked to both the team members who presented at MAF and provided them with my business card and talked about what I do, they stated that they were always looking for new team members with both the skills to animate and illustrate for the company.  

Thought Bubble Comic Festival

I attended thought bubble again this year for a third time, there was a lot more newer faces in terms artists in comparison to the previous years, art at the venue was varied in styles and I talked to a lot of illustrators and comic book artists and also networked with them whilst handing out business cards to comic book writers in need of illustrators and artists.

Looking around the festival provided me inspiration for my personal projects and helped me consider certain weaknesses which I possess when it comes to creating characters and scenery, Personally realise that I need to work on my shading and colouring technique to give my illustrations a balance of dark and light features to make the characters and scenery look realistic.    

Creating my creative presence icon/logo and business

For my social media accounts I have been changing the image icon in each picture so that there is continuous scheme going, I personally can't change the names at the moment because my business cards have a particular name in relation to my account, changing would in my business cards being useless at the moment because general people who are interested in my work will not be able to find it. I will have to keep the details momentarily until I create a new set of business cards with updated information. I have been giving out my business cards to professional art practitioners at thought Bubble and other people in need of work.

changing the icon will allow me to build a small part of my identity for my working pieces so that every account has the same look.

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