Coming off the high and excitement which was having the opportunity to see some of concept artist William Simpson's work, I was able to get another opportunity today which was meeting in person Joel Simon. Indeed, I came into college class just going about my daily routine (working ever so hard of course) until the class was informed Joel Simon would be coming in to give us a small talk on the industry. The purpose of the talk was to give me and the class a more detailed insight into the creative sector of animation, as well as giving us some guidance on how we can approach creating the iconic videogame character which Shiny Money Entertainment requires.
If you don't know who Joel Simon is let me explain and give you a brief profile on who he is. Joel Simon is founder of Flickerpix based in Holywood, Northern Ireland whom specialise in the animation craft within the creatitive industries. Flickerpix have worked on mainly animation shorts for children but also have worked on comedic materials for adults using clay animation techniques known as Claymation. Since being founded Flickerpix have won many awards based on their expertise again with animation. Joel Simon stated he was unemployed for quite sometime but had the idea of bringing this unique craft which is animation to Northern Ireland, because Northern Ireland doesn't have such a company like Flickerpix until now.
The talk Joel Simon gave was quite inspirational to me because he is proof nothing is impossible, all you have to do is to be realistic and focus on what you do. It is also worth mentioning, Joel Simon presented some of his clay models from which he used on some of his anmation projects during his talk, giving me a better understanding of the hard work which goes into some of these projects. If all of this is nonsense to you up until now let me summarise the talk Joel Simon gave and my understanding of it: Nothing Is Impossible! :-) Catch you all later then.
Flickerpix Logo Image Ref: http://www.flickerpix.com/
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