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[leigh]

Please use punctuation.

There are actually numerous animation companies in the UK.

Focus on developing your skills, and your studies. Once you finish school, there are some good courses you can go to in the UK to get your degree, which will help you to get a work permit for the USA, should you still wish to go there.

[indipops]

Hey Conor,

i'm NOT saying school work isn't important, but a showreel and the work you produce to apply for a job would be the most important tool in the animation world.

I'm currently at the University of Teesside, which has a course in computer animation and digital character and you can look up the grades you need to get into those kind of degrees all over the country on UCAS.

Mostly i've been taught that the grades aren't as important as the work you produce (animation) but i found the whole uni thing great to meet people and bounce ideas around, i learnt more from them, it is also a great opportunity to network, which is another big tool, gettign contacts is a biggy. Try and get work experience placements (well probably about 16 or something) they help no end, and it's something for your CV. Also animation can include so many varieties of subjects to learn, like physics, maths, art, history, biology, graphics....the list goes on. When i picked my GCSE's i got an idea for what the uni's in the UK had to offer, that helps. If you don't want the degree route... there are a lot of self taught animators too.

troulbe is with america is the VISA, but i'm sure if you work hard and u get to the point where someone wants you rather then the other wa around you'll be grand.

It's definatly an exciting industry :D

Sorry to babble

[conh13]

Hey Conor,

i'm NOT saying school work isn't important, but a showreel and the work you produce to apply for a job would be the most important tool in the animation world.

I'm currently at the University of Teesside, which has a course in computer animation and digital character and you can look up the grades you need to get into those kind of degrees all over the country on UCAS.

Mostly i've been taught that the grades aren't as important as the work you produce (animation) but i found the whole uni thing great to meet people and bounce ideas around, i learnt more from them, it is also a great opportunity to network, which is another big tool, gettign contacts is a biggy. Try and get work experience placements (well probably about 16 or something) they help no end, and it's something for your CV. Also animation can include so many varieties of subjects to learn, like physics, maths, art, history, biology, graphics....the list goes on. When i picked my GCSE's i got an idea for what the uni's in the UK had to offer, that helps. If you don't want the degree route... there are a lot of self taught animators too.

troulbe is with america is the VISA, but i'm sure if you work hard and u get to the point where someone wants you rather then the other wa around you'll be grand.

It's definatly an exciting industry :D

Sorry to babble thanks for the advice indipops I really appreciate it I have been looking into college and there is quite a few courses I could do such as : special effects make up and computer animation

[indipops]

Check the 11 second club or the naimation mentor webite there is a good tips and tricks e-book for free! I was reading yesterday, some handy tips

[indipops]

Check the 11 second club or the animation mentor website there is a good tips and tricks e-book for free! I was reading yesterday, some handy tips

[conh13]

Check the 11 second club or the naimation mentor webite there is a good tips and tricks e-book for free! I was reading yesterday, some handy tips

Thanks for the advice.conor

[leigh]

troulbe is with america is the VISA, but i'm sure if you work hard and u get to the point where someone wants you rather then the other wa around you'll be grand.

Without a degree, you can only really get a work permit for the US with 10+ years of experience in your field, or an extraordinary amount of talent that has been extensively, internationally recognised.

If this kid wants to work at Pixar or Dreamworks, then yeah he needs talent, but no amount of talent is going to impress the stuffy suits in immigration who can't really think beyond filling in checkboxes on their forms. No degree or equivalent work experience, no H-1B work permit.

Trust me, I've been through the US immigration process.

[nanogirl]

Conor - just keep working on a body of work, you might want to consider a website if you don't have one already to upload your work so that when you do apply for a job it is easy for them to look at your work. Sometimes having a lot of great looking work is enough to impress.
And most of all, I really wanted to say how commendable it is that you are only 14 years old and you know what you want to do and have the passion, talent and drive to follow your dreams. Considering how young you are it is quite amazing, a lot of older folks don't have as much.
By the time you are old enough to apply for a job in the United States (and some companies will pay for your relocation) you will already have years of work to your credit allowing you to get the job earlier than anyone else. Keep going kid, I'll be rooting for you! Gina

[conh13]

Hello Gina

Thanks for the advice I really want my own website but I don't really no how to make one so I will have to have help with that, thankyou for the vote of confidence sometimes I think I am the only child like me in the world and I am convinced I am, I have never met a child like me in the whole 14 years I have been alive.

I Have watched the brand new madagascar 2 film I am not sure If you have seen It, I drawed A picture of alex exactly the same as the animators and I think I drawed better than the animators at dreamworks, I also drawed a picture of bob off monsters vs aliens also exactly like the animators again, I think I am improving every time I put my pencil on the paper.

Thankyou for the idea of making my own website maybe I can put my pictures of my creations and the dreamworks madagascar 2 and monsters vs aliens on there then I could show a whole load of brilliant people like you my work and then become a famous drawer then become top drawer of pixar or dreamworks.

Thankyou dreamworks people like you
I feel are the best people In the world

Conor x

[wildone106]

There's a lot of visual FX studios in London, if you can somehow get into those (it wont be easy) it'll be a foot in the door. I had a friend do just that and he's worked on some big movies since like Lord Of The Rings, Kong ect so it is possible, if your good! Not like me..lol

[conh13]

Hi wildone

Thanks for the advice, I think you have to be very clever to be an animator you have got to know what you are doing, so I bet you ARE very good at what you do I think everyone is good at what they do on this website or they would not have signed up.

I love those films the animation is superb in these films especially the special fx.

[Groovedog]

www.jasonryananimation.com (http://www.jasonryananimation.com)
is another exemplary website that can help you build some skills. Some of the free tutorials give you a general idea of what an animator does. Planning --> software --> final animation.

Jason's stuff is fantastic.

[conh13]

Thanks brilliant website very clever man

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