When I was doing the Equifax shoot, I asked Ben who I should be talking when looking for more work in that area, and he said he had a job the next week and could ask if I could come in for a day’s work experience. However, the art director, Gordon, got back to him saying he was looking for another person and would I be able to do the whole week? So that’s how I got this job!
This one was for a title sequence for a TV show about Dungeons and Dragons called ‘Dungeon Masters’. I was on the team making paper models based on the concept art, which we photographed on Dragonframe so that the CG team could animated digitally. Ben said that sort of thing seems to be happening more and more, so I feel like it was useful to experience a different area of work for model making in animation.
At the start of the week, I felt a bit out of my depth, but got more confident as we went. I was working with all sorts of different kinds of paper, and it was actually a really good opportunity for developing skills in paper cutting. I was worried at the start that I wouldn’t be able to make really intricate work, but I surprised myself in the end when I drew and cut out this tree:
Overall, this was a positive experience. It was quite hardwork, and for me it sometimes felt quite lonely because I was mostly working alone at a table by myself.
Leave a Reply