Zanne Whittingham - Fettle Animation

Zane Whittingham came in to speak to us about about freelancing and to share with us his 20 years of experience he has and what its like to be an organiser of All Animated. He spoke about the companies he has worked for before such as Teleimagination and CITV and he showed us some projects he had worked on, he primarily works using flash animation, this to me doesn't fit in with what i do but it was still interesting to listen to and get information from. Zane talked about how important it is to know how much you are worth in the industry and that you should view college work as like your first job. He talked about how we should try not to work for free but at least get something small out of it such as working for publicity, this way you can always get something out of your work as well as building your portfolio, good advice and i will try and stick to this getting something out of each piece of work, if not I'll take it as good experience and learn from it. He also talked about making networks and interacting with other animators, visiting conferences, expanding your networks as this is the best way to succeed when going freelance, this completely makes sense as a lot of it is who you know and who they know to get your work around and get you new jobs. His visit overall was interesting but it didn't teach me that much more than i knew already from other visitors we've had in over the past three years, it was still interesting to listen to what an organiser of animation thinks and how the 2D process of animation goes compared to the 3d process. Here is a trailer of a documentary he showed us that the team had worked on, it was a very powerful and moving piece about the remarkable eyewitness stories of six world war two holocaust survivors, take a look at the video below, i find the narration and sound is just moving and even though the animation is pretty simple it still works as it makes you focus on those simple images and image for yourself the horrors they would have went through :/ 

take a look - 

http://vimeo.com/89223502

here is a link to Fettle Animation website also - 

http://fettleanimation.com/2014/04/07/our-new-animated-documentary-series/