New year is already over . It’s a vital time to make a new year’s resolution. While some have already made up their minds about some goals that need to be achieved, some ideas one should definitely consider especially if one is a student who aspires to achieve a career options in creative fields like animation, visual effect and filmmaking.

Set Your Goals for a Creative Career Options in Animation, VFX, and Filmmaking.

1. Build a portfolio –

Necessarily one should try to be on top of the list.

It’s one of the most important steps in one’s career options.

Having a great skill is not enough, planned work always wins over un-recognized talent.

A well designed portfolio presents one as a professional to prospective employers.

Thus designing a portfolio should be completed as a job  in a month or two.

While one should keep adding the best work to the portfolio one should apply for internships and part time jobs.

2. Start a youtube channel –

If you’re starting in a creative field, explore career options by creating videos, sharing them on platforms like YouTube.

One should gain viewership and thus get valuable feedback from others and should even make money in the process.

Some of the most viral videos are the simplest ones.

Vimeo too is a great place to publish animation and other such work .

3. Experiment with AI –

one should experience with new artificial intelligence tools such as Open AI and Mid journey.

AI  is here to stay thus one might think of an opportunity  for a new tool to create good creative content.

4. Update the link profile –

Nowadays animators must be in profile with a well  created profile that links to my demo reel.

Recruiters live on linked in which offers a stop shop for various opportunities.

5. Update the demo reel –

An updated demo reel is essential for showcasing your skills and exploring career options.

Potential clients will judge the demo reel on the quality of the reel and take a hard look at the reel and thus input it on the linked in profile.

6. Be online –

It is easy to be located online. One should have his or her own blog or website ideally with the name in the url.

The url should definitely have the key words blogs animation joe as they might find oneself.

As an alternative it is easy to find an art station .

One should be sure that the demo reel is very much easy to be located at Vimeo or Youtube.

7.  Stay in touch –

One should stay in touch with all fellow students and batchmates  in  various ways such as in the whatsapp group of animation institute or facebook.

In this way they might get an idea of the whereabouts of their batch mate and this is how they might get a good idea about the job market.

8. Send your reel in ten studios – 

The best way to explore career options is by sending your reel to multiple studios.

One should keep an eye on jobs page quikr, indeed, and various other job sites.

One might send his reel to any animation studio as a forced application .

These things might work out.

Even if in an advertisement one doesn’t possess the required qualification one should apply for the job.

In due course of time one by any chance may be selected for the job.

9. Take a small freelance job –

One might ask his friend or any family member if they are seeking a freelance job.

If someone needs a logo for their company or explainer video or a small piece of digital art for a project doing life briefs are brilliant ways to learn how industry works. Thus it pleases the client , pleasing the client is the way the digital artist works for a living.

10. One should follow someone one admires –

This is not very much about following a movie star on instagram.

One should follow those who inspire our creativity. One should thus imagine someone whose work feels extraordinary, even though many people underrate it.

It could be someone  who is very much popular.

For prospective animators it could be the work of Walt Disney.

For designers it might be Paul Rand Start by knowing more about them and the way their work changed the world.

11. Get more involvement with creative community –

Google in where one might search for local community organizations and meet up networking that will give one the opportunity to communicate with like minded people to get feedback and to collaborate with people.

One might make a list of events one is interested in and thus attend them.

12. Create a long term plan for the future –

One should think about all the things one has wished to achieve personally and professionally, especially when exploring career option.

A well-strategized plan makes goals less strenuous, Set up benchmarks and daily goals to motivate yourself.

13. Travel more –

One should be like a tourist and less a traveller.

One should challenge the idea about the world and place on it.

Travelling will help one to get new opportunities.

Thus just watching what’s around us as well as spending time on the internet could be a new year’s resolution.

14. Set one big long term goal –

Artist resolution needs to be focussed on long term goals .

These long term goals might be tiring  so one must be 100 % sure to break them down to action and one might break them down to actionable tasks that one might work on a monthly basis.

If one goal is to sell animation reels one should try to put the website in social media in order to build followers but one should do it immediately.

The first and foremost step aspiring animation students should take is to join a course on animation if required. This will provide the essential skills and knowledge to explore various career option in animation, visual effects, and related creative fields.

MAAC Kolkata provides  various animation courses.

They also give placement assistance.

So hurry up, join us, give a call or walk into our centre. We are here to help you.

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