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INDEXA very talented animator, help me encourage and advise her please?
8 years, 5 months ago - Ellen Alberti
Hey everyone,
So one of my closest friends suffers from aspergers (a form of autism) because of this she has been home schooled her entire life until she reached college, there she attended and found a passion for animation... unfortunatly, our college did not teach her animation and the main tutor didn't support her passion or any of her work as she played favourites in the class and put down those she disliked.
Because of this tutor, we both left that college. She moved to a new college and is basically repeating the course again but can't do her extended level 3 as the new college have only now just turned round and said she can't do the extended as they will stop her funding.
Basically, she is self taught and her super bad anxiety from the aspergers mixed with the very negative comments from that tutor have made her to believe she is hopeless, useless, won't get anywhere with it etc. She doesn't have enough UCAS points to attend uni yet because of the repeated course and she doesn't believe she is talented enough nor confident enough to approach people, companies, etc to maybe ask for advice, training or work experience.
I am going to post the links to some of her work below, and I would really appreciate it if the lovely people on here could offer me and/or her places to look at, general advice on how to approve... anything! I've been trying to get her to acknowledge her talents for over 2 years now, please help me show her she is an incredibly talented animator and artist.
Thank you in advance,
Ellen
Animation 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAdS0jf34w4&t=12s
This was her first animation that she created in level 2, the music was written, recorded and composed by her.
Animation 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnpKI7I8qI&t=46s
A beautiful piece to accompany a poem she wrote, once again. She recorded the music.
Animation 3/music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb8m5GBY4Ws
Decorated instruments: http://www.boredpanda.com/i-adopt-musical-instruments-as-canvases-for-my-composed-creations/
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8 years, 5 months ago - Robin Fuller
Hi Ellen
My name is Robin Fuller, I am an animator and filmmaker. I'm also a lecturer on the animation BA at Norwich University of the Arts. I took a look at your friend's work. I think she has great imagination and there is definitely a lot of potential there. If it helps, I'd be happy to provide some advise on applying to university courses. The kind of things that we look for in a portfolio and the next steps that she could take.
Feel free to pass her my email address: r.fuller@nua.ac.uk
Thanks
Robin
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8 years, 5 months ago - sabina jay
Beautiful animation and poetry my friend did an MA at aub animation and music are specific talents you either have the gifts or you don't your friend does I thought the editing was good also. . Maybe she could submit the first one to festivals I think it really was good. . And you are a good friend. Good luck
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8 years, 5 months ago - Matt Turner
Really great work. Sorry to hear about the difficulties your friend has had, I hope she has better luck going forward.
Best,
Matt
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8 years, 4 months ago - Xenia Glen
Hi Ellen,
Thanks for sharing this on SP, her work is lovely!
You should definitely take Robin up on his offer and put them in touch.
You could also subscribe to the SP Animation bulletin, we regularly post opportunities and news for animators in here which you could let her know about. The bulletin goes out twice a week on Monday and Friday, you can subscribe to the bulletin here: https://shootingpeople.org/myaccount/bulletin
And of course, please do update us on her progress :)
Xenia x
Response from 8 years, 4 months ago - Xenia Glen SHOW