I'm over the next hurdle
I'm ecstatic that I got the internship at Fablevision like I wanted. I mean this place was screaming my name as soon as I walked in. Get this: I walk in and there is one wall that was totally over-taken by toys. I told the woman at the desk ( now know her name is Jesse) that it looked like my room. Since I do collect toys except my room is also covered in RtED and Excalibur (The European X-Men team) posters. My closet is also full of Star Trek Toys. She told me that it was the "Wall of Inspiration" and that in the middle was Fabelvision’s products (They make children's software and cartoon shorts for really young children.) Surrounding their products was some of the artist's favorite toys. It was very cool.
The interview went well even though I was worried because I only had brought my demo-reel and no print media but luckily since I do put some of my best stuff on youtube they were able to watch Bear and Bunny Go on Vacation and The Disgruntled Tiki Tour Guide and surprisingly they liked them a lot. I know both needed work on the animation part (Especially since "Tiki" was only my second Flash animation ever.) But they said they were looking for animators that knew how to tell a story because any animation student can do the actual animation part but storytelling is a writer’s jobs so not many even think about it. I personally am one that think story comes first and animation second. (I won't risk repeating myself of this subject It's in a previous post, It's the one with Wall-E pictured at the bottom.) If I hadn't heard from Fablevision in one more day I was going to grab Sasha, sit him down and have him help me put the final touches on my portfolio site so I could send it to them. All the site needs is some loading screens/bars and to make the videos play like they should but Sasha has been so tired from work I hate to make him come home and do more.
Now that I got the difficult task of finding an internship with no help from my Career advisor Kristen what so ever: She took 2 weeks to get back to me and to tell me I should apply to Fablevision. By that point I already had the interview scheduled with Fablevision. Needless to say I was pretty pissed, I heard she went off to Cancun in the weeks between semesters (WHEN EVERYONE NEEDED HER!!!!) not to mention during Finals week she was attending Siggraph in California. (I was pissed she got swag from DreamWorks and they didn't have much of anything when DreamWorks was here in Boston. I would have gone to Siggraph in Cali had it not always land on finals week during the summer.) Then on Tuesday I had a meeting with her, which I begrudgingly went to (because I was pissed that her uselessness gets her such high pay.) And because of my defensiveness towards her she pointed out that in my resume it said I was "Creative and Friendly" and she said "I'm sure you're creative but I don't find you friendly." saying that she worried I would act the same in front of an interviewer. I was tempted to retort "Maybe I just don't like you," But unfortunately she does have control over one of my grades and I want to graduate this semester. I mean come on? I know how to go on an interview I mean I worked at Victoria's Secret for Christ's sake! (Not the easiest job in the world to get I'll tell you.) I know the Internship class, which starts today, is going to be full of useless information (Sasha told me one of her tips was "Wipe your sweaty hands before shaking hands with an interviewer".) And anything useful would be too late because to take the class that teaches you how to get an internship you have to already have one.
So now I only have to worry about the crazy amount of work for production team (Which is going to be done on crazy $10,000 high-tech machines, yes everyone we got the Wacom screens in! Thanks Donati!), the crazy amount of work for portfolio and the most likely crazy amount of work for my internship, luckily crazy amounts of work don't intimidate me so much.
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What our crazy $10,000 Machines (that's 10k each) Look like (Yes, that is a computer monitor) :
My Demo Reel:
The interview went well even though I was worried because I only had brought my demo-reel and no print media but luckily since I do put some of my best stuff on youtube they were able to watch Bear and Bunny Go on Vacation and The Disgruntled Tiki Tour Guide and surprisingly they liked them a lot. I know both needed work on the animation part (Especially since "Tiki" was only my second Flash animation ever.) But they said they were looking for animators that knew how to tell a story because any animation student can do the actual animation part but storytelling is a writer’s jobs so not many even think about it. I personally am one that think story comes first and animation second. (I won't risk repeating myself of this subject It's in a previous post, It's the one with Wall-E pictured at the bottom.) If I hadn't heard from Fablevision in one more day I was going to grab Sasha, sit him down and have him help me put the final touches on my portfolio site so I could send it to them. All the site needs is some loading screens/bars and to make the videos play like they should but Sasha has been so tired from work I hate to make him come home and do more.
Now that I got the difficult task of finding an internship with no help from my Career advisor Kristen what so ever: She took 2 weeks to get back to me and to tell me I should apply to Fablevision. By that point I already had the interview scheduled with Fablevision. Needless to say I was pretty pissed, I heard she went off to Cancun in the weeks between semesters (WHEN EVERYONE NEEDED HER!!!!) not to mention during Finals week she was attending Siggraph in California. (I was pissed she got swag from DreamWorks and they didn't have much of anything when DreamWorks was here in Boston. I would have gone to Siggraph in Cali had it not always land on finals week during the summer.) Then on Tuesday I had a meeting with her, which I begrudgingly went to (because I was pissed that her uselessness gets her such high pay.) And because of my defensiveness towards her she pointed out that in my resume it said I was "Creative and Friendly" and she said "I'm sure you're creative but I don't find you friendly." saying that she worried I would act the same in front of an interviewer. I was tempted to retort "Maybe I just don't like you," But unfortunately she does have control over one of my grades and I want to graduate this semester. I mean come on? I know how to go on an interview I mean I worked at Victoria's Secret for Christ's sake! (Not the easiest job in the world to get I'll tell you.) I know the Internship class, which starts today, is going to be full of useless information (Sasha told me one of her tips was "Wipe your sweaty hands before shaking hands with an interviewer".) And anything useful would be too late because to take the class that teaches you how to get an internship you have to already have one.
So now I only have to worry about the crazy amount of work for production team (Which is going to be done on crazy $10,000 high-tech machines, yes everyone we got the Wacom screens in! Thanks Donati!), the crazy amount of work for portfolio and the most likely crazy amount of work for my internship, luckily crazy amounts of work don't intimidate me so much.
For those reading this on facebook where Images and video may be disabled go here: http://el-dorado-guru.livejournal.com/
What our crazy $10,000 Machines (that's 10k each) Look like (Yes, that is a computer monitor) :
My Demo Reel:
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