Job Interview Results and Thumbnail Critique

Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I had my interview for a freelance storyboard job, I got my review for my thumbnails back from my mentor and I worked on an animated logo for myself.

The job interview went well. My interviewer was really nice and liked my work. The job was for a self-driving Ford car. Unfortunately, I did not get the job, but I did make a good connection. They are looking for local people in the future and Robert Half the company doing the hiring for another company does not have a lot of people that do Storyboarding. The lady I interviewed with liked my work and is going to put my name out in their weekly newsletter to their clients letting them know they do have people that can storyboard. It’s a nice way to get my name out there.

My mentor did a critique of my thumbnails this past week and I got a lot of good feedback. He wants to see more perspective and better composition for thumbnails. Adding quick perspective lines will help show if we are looking up or down at the character and even though I know how where the camera is, if I was showing this to a client, I need to be able to convey this to them. Some of my shots had a lot of dead space in them too so I need to focus on better compositions as I work on them. Starting today I am working on my perspective drawing and reading up on what makes a good composition. If I find any books that are helpful, I will list them here as well.

You can check out my new animated logo on my Instagram. Thanks for stopping by again. I hope to see you next week. BOARD ON!