...now all I need is a job
So I'm officially done with school I'm 99.9% sure I passed all my classes. Weiner said I passed. I handed in everything to Kristen and Donati loves me too much. I think I'll be ok so here's a breakdown of what the last week an a half was like:
The Portfolio Show (Friday Dec 12): It was fun but uneventful. The only 2D animation company that showed up didn't come talk to me.... most likely because I was talking to someone else at the time and they didn't come back around. There were only 4 animation students. And I was the only 2D animator there. They weren't hiring anyway. I did have one person contact me back... unfortunately it was one of those low life audio students masquerading as an employer trying to pick me up. He did a damn good job I believed him until he sent me a text message that started with "Hey beautiful..." The day started disastrous. Ice Storms that ripped through the North East left most of us without power... including me in Marlborough. I could hear trees falling down and see the flash of power lines snapping in the middle of the night. The next morning it looked like a hurricane ripped through our heavily forested neighborhood. I had no power the morning of the portfolio show thus I didn’t' have all the files I needed to hand in, any of my demo reel CDs burned or CD labels printed. I basically burned a slightly older version of my demo reel on my laptop until it ran out of batteries. It was for the best; practically no one (except aforementioned audio student) took my CDs anyway.
Digital Portfolio: Also I finished my portfolio website. For some reason it has been having issues loading on internet explorer. It's fine in Firefox and Safari as of now though I'll try to figure out how it happened. Flash is a buggy program and it started not working on Internet explorer even though I didn't edit the main page (where the site is being buggy.) If you're using Internet Explorer and you click on the bunny and all you see is a rectangle and nothing moving then right click and hit “play”.... it's basically loading the loading bar a 100% and not continuing on to the website.
Team Production (Tuesday Dec 9th): Dave Mike and I pulled off a half decent project. I didn't go to the final class so I could get everything ready for the Portfolio show. In the meantime I was messing with Wiener's head through e-mail the whole time. I figured out this about him... because of his OCD he can't have an unanswered question lingering. So every time he wrote to me through e-mail I replied as coldly as possible and ignored his nosey questions.... it messed with his head and I was satisfied.
Here was our final movie.... though I believe Dave took this one and improved it since then this is basically what it looked like.
FableVision: My last day is Friday. I was hoping to stay even if I didn’t get paid so I could at least be getting animation experience (and keeping my career advisor Kristen from harassing me since I may have to get a retail job to make money) but it's over. I didn't expect them to hire me or keep me past December anyway. I know they have no room and a long list of freelancers better than me to choose from. I've applied for some other art jobs such as illustrator and model sheet artist. But no luck yet. If I get a retail job it's not like I won't be looking for an animation job as well. I just want Kristen off my back. She says I'm defensive; I just don't like putting my career in her hands. I put myself through high school since my high school was being threatened of losing it's credibility, I found my own jobs and I get what needs to be done without anyone. I don't need her. I'm not a clueless 16 year old.