Notes about Class Today

A few housekeeping notes:

#1 Place your homework from Wednesday in the MIDTERMS FOLDER! Your Drawing assignment is due by 12:00 Midnight!
#2 Start compositing your film! I would like to see a current cut of your film by the end of class Wednesday, in addition to the amount of your film that is due!
#3 Review the posts below this one to see everything that is due tomorrow for midterm grading! Next class, you will have a workday, and I will take time to review all of the content you have created so far!

If you were absent, please email me soon and give me an update on your progress. Keep me in the know of how you're doing so I can best know how to help you! Have a nice day everyone! =D

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NOTES FROM ZARK'S PRESENTATION TODAY ARE BELOW!
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Value: Reality: Process:

Goal of career services: Find and lay out early possibilities for you!

• internships: you have 6 credits towards your degree.
• Value of real world experience
• Resume
• Unfortunate parts of reality:
• Entry level jobs also ask you to have experience.
• How do acquire that?
• Multiple possibilities: Internships are one option of it.
• Knowing that the option is out there, you are able to take a couple internships in college so you can have a couple positions in businesses on your resume before you leave college. (generate your own experience)
• Best case scenario:
• Doing a few jobs for different people gives you more options and more experience!
• 10 years post graduation: all the people who did internships advanced faster.
• Doing internships show others what you’re able to do and give you more opportunities to advancement.
• Other Facet of Reality: Boost your professionalism.
• An internship is a step up for helping you with your creative skills and professional development.
• It’s an educational way for you to refine your professionalism outside of school.
• SUPPLY / DEMAND:
• Student: Really demand for learning animation schools.
• Unfortunate side: Memphis TN, No animation industry.
• Despite that reality, there are opportunities!
• What is a creative way around getting industry experience.
• Look at the skills it takes to be an animator:
• Editing
• storytelling
• narrative
• drawing
• storyboarding
• 4-dimensional layout and construction
• (Working with time-based media)
• Prototyping
• Sound acquisition and editing!
• Character design
• Environment design
• texturing.
• These skills are sub components: Any one of these skills are applicable as an animator. They are also useful as an artist outside of animation!
• What places are this used:
• Tv production
• Design and Layout in Architecture
• Storytelling:
• Example: Previous students who worked with Zark.  Bryce Organization:
• Hired animators to design potato chips.
• Why hire animators with industrial space?
• There is a need for visual innovation and creative thinking in EVERY facet.
• More Importantly: The Company HAS A NARRATIVE THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD.
• That’s important for having animators.
• GETTING THE STORY RIGHT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART for that organization!
• Storytelling is a HUGE skill that is highly marketable to everyone!
• Zark gets asked for 3 things:
• Graphic Designs
• Shoot and Edit Video
• Code for the Web.
• Being able to do even two of these increase your options! 
• There are opportunities to travel. Leave memphis, and score internships and animation positions!
• While you are here, however, take advantage of what you have, and the options you have to boost your skills for the time that comes to make your work stronger!
• Consider these 2 things:
• Develop a sense of where you want to work.
• What makes you you?
• What makes you unique?
• What do you need to apply?
• 1. You need a resume! A good resume!
• An extensive resume is not expected, but you want to have as much work experience you can.
• Resume says something about your education, work experience, 
• Portfolio!
• Elevator pitches!
• A short description of who you are and what you do!
• Build a sense of opportunities and build a profile for yourself!
• Job and internship: Scout the opportunity. Build the profile, write the cover letter that blends your experience, etc!
• IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT:
• Carrie Brooks, and Becca Hart.
• Build steps towards your full narrative!
• Revise your resume
• Work on your ability to write cover letters!
• Show prototypes of your portfolio, resume, and cover letter, to me, jill, etc!
• Who has a website with some of their content on it?
• What can we do to build a sense of opportunities to come up with a list of options and places to help improve your skills!
• GPA 2.6 or waiver, with 45 Credit Hours completed!
• What was the process of application like for internships?
• College: Come to college to know things.
• Leave college to apply them.
• What we appreciate a lot of: Initiative and hustle!
• For everyone to push yourself forward:
• Know what you want to do, where you want to do it, and start looking for ways to do it.
• Find a stepping stone to help build towards it.
• If you have a vision of where you would like to be, it will help you get to where you want to go.