At the end of last year, I visited INNMOTION with one of my friends. Of course, that event would be a great place to network and socialise with Industry people and fellow animation enthusiasts. But the bad news is we were both too shy to talk to people there.
After the two days ended, I started regretting the missed opportunity of networking. One of the main regrets was we got Aaron Blaise and James Baxter standing near us and we just stood there in silence.
At the end of this year, the event will be back and we will go again! Hopefully by then we wont be as shy and can actually talk to people. wish us luck!
Earlier this year, I submitted my one-minute film, Friend Machine, to 15 festivals as an experiment. To be honest I think the film wasn’t concluded well as a story and I am not that hopeful about getting to any of them, so I am super chill about it. There were three deadlines that passed, and luckily the film was selected for one festival! Which is the Bali International Film Festival. I actually didn’t expect to get in because I thought that Film Festivals in Indonesia are more focused on live-action films. So this made me more hopeful about the future of Animation Industry in Indonesia! And I am grateful for it.
For my graduation film, intermezzo, I am also planning to submit it to as many festivals as I can (as long as it’s free or cheap lol) because I spent lots of time just to finish it so it better be out there 🙂
Let’s just say that I don’t like being online. I want to be as anonymous as I can live on earth, but of course, the world doesn’t work that way anymore. Especially I want to pursue a career in the animation and film industry. I can say that my digital presence is like a barren desert. But the annoying part is because I don’t voluntarily be present online, the things that showed up would be so random, like a silly tweet from 15 years ago from my abandoned Twitter account.
So I have a mission after I am done with everything. Which is to fill up my digital presence professionally through a portfolio website, Behance, Vimeo, etc.
I am currently still formulating how I want to present myself, should I be general with my skill and the portfolio or should I be focused? I have been looking through multiple animator’s websites and they are so varied in that aspect. I feel like being general and having a variety of portfolios could open up wider opportunities. But if I want the portfolio to be more focused, It would look more professional. the more I think of it the more I feel like I am worrying for nothing though, because I enjoyed surfing through different types of portfolio websites to get inspiration. We’ll see later on..
I have to say, deciding to learn animation is still the best decision that I have made, even if the animation career has not started yet. And if I am honest if I didn’t stumble upon MACA webpage and randomly started reading through the course details, maybe I would still be sceptical about pursuing animation.
When it comes to my career pathway after I graduate, I can think of three directions: first is as an animator, second is to be in the art department, and the third is in production design area. What I know is I want to be in this industry, and I can only hope that I will enjoy it, because sometimes professional life and the industry conditions could alter your view about something that you are initially passionate about, but I am optimistic!
One of the things that I will try to do after graduation is to do an internship. I feel like an intern role would suit me better at the beginning because I know nothing about the real working world of the animation industry. Also I feel like as an intern you will be more comfortable asking many questions and asking people to teach you anything. Or maybe the environment of the Industry is different than what I am familiar with? I guess I will have to find out.
As for now, I have only applied to one internship, which I did last week, so there won’t be any update until later on I assume. To be honest, there are many opportunities that I missed. My problem was the lack of decent quality portfolio for the showreel, because my exercises from the first year were super rough, so I had to wait until I was done with some cleaned-up scenes so I could have three different projects in my showreel.
Hopefully, I can add more after this!
(I actually have the showreel but I can’t seem to upload it so maybe next time!)
