Bianca Ansems is a storyboard artist at Cartoon Network. But being a storyboard artist is not her only skill and she specified to us that going into the industry that she only learnt then that she did not have to put herself under any specific label like that and it's okay to be more generalist. Her other skills include being a director, an illustrator, working freelance and as a stop motion animator. She worked an internship of five months and worked two weeks at Aardman Animation Studio. She spoke very highly of her time doing work experience, she heavily encouraged us to be looking for placements saying that it was a great way of learning how to work in a team.
Bianca's talk was incredibly beneficial to me. In particular because she tailored it to us as students considering she was a student so was very sympathetic to us and very aware of keeping us informed about the things she did not know when she was going into the industry. In particular, her insight into free-lance work was incredibly beneficial to me. Working freelance is something that I think will be inevitable, however I am very skeptical about going straight into freelance immediately after uni. And up till this point, I have been advised to find work in a studio first. Bianca however did talk up being a freelance animator because she said it can be an incredibly rewarding career if we go about it in the right way.
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