workin in motion gfx
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hey cute site breadlegz
does telly count?
used to be a photographer, then newspaper layout, then print design, then cdrom design, then touch screen design, then interweb design, now interactive tv design (which includes a lot of AE work as well as interface design).
In the past 12 months i've done AE work for such distinguished (haha) programmes as "Spooks", "Brassed Off Britain" (got to operate the live graphics in the gallery for that too which was super fun!), "Proms", "Eurovision - Making Your Mind Up", "The Greatest Love Songs of All Time", "Sleep", "The Brain of Blue Peter" and now "The Genius of Beethoven".
I enjoy the fast pace of tv, and the fact that every project i work on is completely different from the previous one - the visuals have to reflect that. In a terribly superficial way i love the disposability of broadcast design - you work on it for a month, then it is broadcast and you never see it again! I'm enjoying being thrown in the deep end all the time, the learning curve has been painful but fun too.
Sometimes the hours suck. Also if a bigshot controller/head editor/executive producer comes along and decides he doesn't like something that was supposedly signed off before you started animating, you have to start again but the deadline obviously doesn't move.