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Internship report part 2
In the studio, what I liked best was to write scripts and to look for concepts for the new movie. I had the impression to do a good job then. I also liked a lot talking to the arty movie directors, they were really nice, interesting and impressive. because of their skills and knowledge in animation. I believe I could improve my skills in digital art and animation with them.
But I was disappointed with some points. For instance, they told is at the beginning that they could teach us how to animate on Adobe Flash. But despite our requests they never did it. We also hoped to do stop-motion animation because this studio is well-known for that, but we arrived when they weren’t doing a lot of animation, so we only could make a few sequences in stop-motion. I didn’t particularly liked the ambiance, sometimes they were really severe on what we did but some other times, they were enthusiastic. I had trouble with team work sometimes because we had to do as the tutor said even if we all tought it wasn’t a good idea. The policy in the studio, using a lot of traineed without paying them or even write their names in the credits made me feel uncomfortable.
Anyway, at the end, they were really grateful to us and I think they were satisfied with our work. They often told us we had good ideas. On the other hand, they didn’t often give us feedbacks and they also thought we were not autonomous enough and we lacked concentration on our tasks. The work placement was monotonous but we got on well with the other trainees. We didn’t have any deadlines so it wasn’t stressful.
I’m not sure this is the right job for me. It’d be better if we had either a real hierarchy or a complete team work but both at the same time doesn’t work well, I believe. I wish we had more work to do because as there were no deadlines, we spent entire mornings and afternoons doing absolutely nothing. I liked the financial part that made me understand how arty movies can be produced but I’m not sure of what I want for the future.
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Internship report part 1
Last spring, I did an internship at an animation studio in Brussels, Belgium. It is an association so they basically hire everyone. I sent a mail with a CV and the address of my blog, as I did earlier in the year, they hired me.
The studio is located in Brussels, near the train station downtown. It’s situated in an old building, they are renovating it by the way. The association is very small with less than 10 employees including the tutor and some part-time assistants, but it looks bigger because of all the trainees and the animators, who are financed by the studio and work with them but they don’t have the same status as employees. We can distinguish too main activities in the assocation, first, there’s the production of arty movies, if the employees in the studio find their project interesting, they can produce their movies. Then, we’ve got « l’atelier collectif » managed by the tutors and constitued of trainees who are making movies. The company philosophy is about providing originality and diversity in animation by trying to do something new in every project.
We were in charge of writing scripts for one project, we had to do some research on inventions given up for dark reasons and write a script for a voice over. We shot some stop-motion tests for this project. Then, our job consisted in making character and background design for another project dealing with Auschwitz camps. Finally, we helped the team make puppets for the No Go Zone project, a movie telling the story of a man who stayed in Fukushima after the reactor’s explosion.
The qualities necessary for the job were mainly motivation because they don’t really push us to do things as they don’t have real deadlines. We also needed perseverence and autonomy for the same reason and of course creativity. because we were part of the creative team. We worked with other trainees and our tutors, we could also see the directors financed by the studio at lunch time to talk to them. My work placement lasted 6 weeks from May 18th to July 3rd. We started at 9h30 and finished at 4h30pm. We didn’t work at week ends.
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