The worker waits

Here's a still project I did illustrating the "grayarea" between finishing school and getting a job as a graphic designer. I wanted him to be the sort've worker character from the post ww2 era. All crits welcome!

www.imageflood.com/swfimage/grayarea.swf

Quite good, You should try having the character standing in the location he is now, but looking down the road waiting for the "job" to pick him up but only seeing a road going off into the horizon.

Just wondering, but you're having difficulty finding a job? You're work is very good, you shouldn't have a problem, I've been through a bunch of Toronto design firms in hopes of finding something that suits me, but I really got tired of all the B.S in the design area, I'm re-focussing my outlook on where I want to be.

Good work.

Cheers,

Scott

Thanks, I'm glad you liked my work. I still have to play around with this guy. I was thinking of even attempting a short animation with him. Sort've waiting at the bus stop, then something like a bug or an inch worm get's his attention, because it's the only thing on the street. Something like that. heh. As for finding work after graduation. I'd be happy finding something in design. I think however I'd really like to study more animation and computer animation in school. I'm just worried that maybe I could learn more on my own, as opposed to spending thousands of dollars on a semester long "intensive" course in 3D. Ah... decisions... thanks again!

I hear ya

After graduating Sheridan's Illustration course I had an easy option of taking their post-grad Computer Animation course, it was in the range of $12,000/year about 2 years ago and it just wasn't what I needed, I could teach myself the software for far less than that.

A lot of the animation courses are over priced, I've seen student demo reels from all of the schools of any interest to me, and to put it mildly I'd say the demos were pretty weak, especially when some of these students were paying $8,000-20,000/year.

Mind you, I'll make an exception for Ringling School of Art and Animation in Florida. Wicked demo reels from those students, but correct me if I'm wrong, it's like $28,000/year US.

Anyways, good work, if you want me to forward on your resume to any of my previous employers just e-mail it to me.

Cheers,

Scott

Ok, I sent you my resume. Thanks again for the advice!