Social Media

I have found social media to be very useful throughout this year.

 I already had a Tumblr, although this course has helped me fill it out a lot more. It gave me something to show Kilogramme when I asked about work experience, rather than having to bring a tonne of sketchbooks or sift through a million different pages between 3 different college blogs. Our front page could serve as a portfolio, but it is so awkward to see the images - and to have people find your art on it anyway, that it is not worth the effort. On tumblr you can tag work making it easier for people to find you, and all it takes is one reblog from the right person for thousands of other people to be able to see you art. I have even had Giancarlo Volpe, the producer of Green Lantern The Animated Series 'Like' my Green Lantern fanart on the site.

Through Asks on Tumblr, I have also spoken to quite a few animation students from America, particular third years who have given me tips and advice for my work and the rest of my uni experience.

Twitter makes it very easy to talk to people who would not necessarily even look at your messages on any other site. I have been able to ask about work experience, and find out about the sort of projects that other people and companies have been working on. The notification system lets you know whenever you have a reply, and it a very easy way of talking to people.

I have more people seeing my art now and it is a lot less intimidation to talk to big names in animation on the internet. I will definitely continue to use my social networking accounts throughout and after university, and hopefully I will have enough contacts on both to have learned a lot and to be able to find out about things that could be very useful to me.