OUAN502, Study Task 3, Animation Studio Research

We were required to create a presentation on a studio of our choosing that we wanted to work for. For me this meant walt Disney Animation Studios. As cliche as it sounds. They are one of the best animation studios out there and they create compelling animated movies as well as are constantly trying to develop a new way of animation so i want to be working in a place where new things are happening on a large scale thats moving the entertainment and animation industry.

While doing the research for this task i didn't want to do the usual dull stuff that everyone knows i tried to find things out that were a bit different or might not fall under common knowledge. I was able to do this for the history of disney where i was able to find out some interesting facts about their early dos as well as a possible reason for why they want to own everything nowadays so it felt like it justified their policies a little (still a bit questionable). After this i wanted to focus on my main interest on the studio their newest aesthetics in paper man using the meander software, I would of liked to of talked more about it but i am not a programmer and a lot of information i found used tech jargon which left me feeling confused and bewildered. It was after this point in my presentation that i really fell apart and the content of what i was talking about was incredibly boring because everyone already knew about it. When it came to talking about the contact side of things this was a frustrating point. A large studio such as Disney is not going to be responding to every little student email, so i had to single out people but i didn't know what i should of searched for and this left me fumbling around and uncertain of what i should be doing or even how to get in contact with professionals so by the time i found people to contact it was too late even if they got back to me. Another issue that arose from this was that a lot of the people i found used public platforms such as instagram and twitter where trying to contact them would be lost in a sea of comments making the endeavour pointless. I was able to find a website belonging to an art director and visual development artist. The fact that this person transitioned over from visual development to art director peaked my interest, whats the difference? What can be done? How much control on projects do you get? and what is an art director? i really hope that this animator gets back to me as i would love to interview her and ask her about this area.

Overall i feel disappointed in the presentation. Due to the subject matter being something everyone knew about it left a lot to be desired as there was nothing of intrigue or mystery to the studio for anyone, but it was the studio i want to work for. Im left feeling disappointed in not being more organised with the task I also feel that the requirement to contact the studio became my main down fall with tis task due to the magnitude of the studio as well as nerves thing over. I hope now that I've started emailing and attempting to get in contact with professionals i will be able to go further with the other tasks that require us to interview a professional that works in our desired area.

Here are each of my slides while doing the presentation i tried to avoid having facts on screen and focused only on getting my points across through speaking other wise i feared i would just read off the slide.