Taking the advice of my course leader, I went and checked out Karrot animation studios, a London company that's worked on projects like Adventure Time and The Amazing World of Gumball
but who also make short films with a tonne of charm packed into them. They do a load of creative commissioned work as well for a massive range of companies, so it was certainly worth my time to look into them.
They're a great example for me of how one can switch up their art style and still keep their own personal flair in a piece of animation, and this relates to my own animation skills because I want to push my boundaries but am not sure how. I'm too set in a certain cartoon style which isn't always a terrible thing if you're established in the industry like Scott Adams or Hergé, but to do contract work I'll have to be able to turn my hand to a bunch of styles.
All of Karrot's videos have a great sense of energy and timing to them that I want to emulate through my animation, whether it be through collage or pixel art. While I'm not a huge fan of all of their work stylistically (I don't really care for the ostrich one), I admire their broad range.
Unlike Karrot Animation, though, I refuse to EVER do a contract for Amazon or a company like that. I don't care if I'm sleeping in a hollowed out log in a dump because my artistic integrity is not for sale to a company that holds billions of pounds in
offshore tax havens.
That is an
issue for another day, though.
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