Anthony Ward came in an gave us a pretty good talk and presentation on being a freelancer for digital artists and animators. He talked about his career as everyone does and told us the story of how he got his foot in the door. As usual to my dismay back then it was all luck and redundancy. It was interesting to listen to his journey but as the gaming industry has changed so much now it's hard to know what to do know as its different. I think we need to get someone in who has literally just got into the industry now, i know thats a hard and silly request but it would be very beneficial. He spoke of how technology has advanced over time and the machines and software he used to use, i'd hardly heard of any of them but i always appreciate thinking of how difficult and how much more time it would have took creative artists to make games and such. He also gave us a bunch of helpful websites to look at and studios to research and visit.
I think the main thing i got out of this talk is to join digital tutors really. He does it part time and i've heard all the third years and my tutors saying that digital tutors is great so i'm definitely going to do it this summer. We obviously saw some on Anthony's work and he is great at what he does so i'd love someone to teach me who i know is good.
Here's my notes from the lecture -
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