Identifying an employer

The area that I would like to work in within the animation industry is commercials or shorts. There are lots of companies out there that create animation for advertising. Because of the argot market of our film, I have tried to find companies that also focus on children's television shows as well as commercials as this would best suit where I would be looking for employment and they would be the most interested in our film.

The first company, that I have mentioned in previous posts, is Blue Zoo. They are a great example of a studio that animates children's television and does television commercials. They have worked with cartoon network and nickelodeon as well as doing diverts for kelloggs "choc and roll" cereal. I did not know anyone from the company so I looked on there website and found their info@bluezoo email address. I sent them this email:

This was to make first contact and hopefully get this message around their studio to generate interest in the degree show. It also encouraged more contact with myself and made it clear that it was for animation. I have not had any response at present.

I remembered that a few months ago Steve Smith from Beakus came to ravensbourne and gave us a talk about how he started up Trunk and Beakus. From that I remembered getting his business card with his email on. 

Beakus have done commercials and web adverts as well as children's television. I thought they would be a great company to contact. This time I sent an email directly to Steve Smith and this is what I wrote:

As of yet, I have not heard back from him either. 

At the beginning of this year, I had some contact with Philip Hunt, a director for Studio AKA. I was talking about the water from Lost and Found because our film focuses quite heavily on the water as well as it is based around the river. When I was corresponding with him, he gave me some great advice about seeing the water as a character in itself rather than some settings that make it work. To finish our conversation, I invited him to our degree show and left it on a positive note. 

Lastly, while searching for companies, I came across Lumiere Studios. They do a lot of commercials and Idents for different channels. They have a lot of experience and a very big client list. I thought I would attempt to contact them. When looking on their website, it gives you a producers name and email address so I sent her an email similar to the previous ones but I got a reply very soon afterwards.

I asked Rob who is our degree show rep and he said that they had not made the official invites yet but if I forwarded him the message he would send them out to her as soon as they were ready. I sent an email back to Claire and explained this so that it did not look as though I had ignored her.