After emailing the receptionist trying to arrange a weeks work experience making speakers for an advert, the job went to my classmate as he lives closer to the site. Over the phone I managed to arrange a studio visit instead, so I could have a look around there work shops and gain some feedback for my written and visual CV.
The building is located in Perivale industrial park amongst other warehouses. When I arrived I was able to speak to one of the designers working in the office upstairs. His job is to speak with clients and agree with them how much their project will cost to make. He also has creative input to their ideas at this stage and will suggest what the final model will look like. It is then up to the full time team of six downstairs to start production and decide if more people are required to be brought in such as designers and freelance modelmakers. On their biggest project to date, 40 freelancers were required in the workshops.
The space at Artem is utilised and adapted to their needs, occasionally filming has even taken place in its car park. There is a fabrication room, a machining room, a main workshop with a CNC and bigger machinery, a sculpting and casting workshop and a smaller studio. The people present on the day were the permanent staff, some previously had worked for the BBC before it started to outsource all its props and effects. There was also a girl from Heartfordshire university undergoing three months of work experience arranged by her tutors. She was making merchandise for a new ride called 13 in Alton towers along with a pile of anamatronic roots.
Two objects on display here that really caught my eye included an animation reference for jumping bunnies for a Sony advert and animal fetuses in the womb for a television documentary. The process of animating the bunnies can be found at http://www.creativereview.co.uk/ and has drawn much attention due to the scale of the project, using traditional stop-frame methods during an age where most advertising campaigns favour CG methods.
The building is located in Perivale industrial park amongst other warehouses. When I arrived I was able to speak to one of the designers working in the office upstairs. His job is to speak with clients and agree with them how much their project will cost to make. He also has creative input to their ideas at this stage and will suggest what the final model will look like. It is then up to the full time team of six downstairs to start production and decide if more people are required to be brought in such as designers and freelance modelmakers. On their biggest project to date, 40 freelancers were required in the workshops.
The space at Artem is utilised and adapted to their needs, occasionally filming has even taken place in its car park. There is a fabrication room, a machining room, a main workshop with a CNC and bigger machinery, a sculpting and casting workshop and a smaller studio. The people present on the day were the permanent staff, some previously had worked for the BBC before it started to outsource all its props and effects. There was also a girl from Heartfordshire university undergoing three months of work experience arranged by her tutors. She was making merchandise for a new ride called 13 in Alton towers along with a pile of anamatronic roots.
Two objects on display here that really caught my eye included an animation reference for jumping bunnies for a Sony advert and animal fetuses in the womb for a television documentary. The process of animating the bunnies can be found at http://www.creativereview.co.uk/ and has drawn much attention due to the scale of the project, using traditional stop-frame methods during an age where most advertising campaigns favour CG methods.
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