Scott Novasic
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lower third is called a LOWER THIRD!
never heard of any of that other stuff. All my years in broadcast in Chicago at Fox and CBS in LA and I never heard any of those terms.
A lower third is a graphic that is created and exists in the lower third part of the screen. This may or may not include text. Many facilities do use a machine called a Chyron to generate text on screen, but at least
in LA and Chicago, we used photoshop for all of our lower thirds and broadcast graphic stills, lower thirds and everything else.
Its the future…. pretty spooky. fyi I have worked with some really nice, but seriously old school broadcast guys who used terms I just never heard of. Slow to changeSuperNova
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Absolutely do spec work. Do whatever inspires you to do your best imagery for your reel. If your not “selling” your reel or portraying a company in an overly negative light, everything is cool. Generally same thing with music. For your reel, your not going to get bothered. But if you use it for a paying job, the rules all change so be careful.
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some reels have “shot lists” which breaks down exactly what it is you are responsible for in each animation. This is a good place to list that xyz company dod not hire you for said work. Personally, im not sure
it matters a whole lot. You are displaying a technical and artistic
use of your talents. Could be for joes burger joint, or Mc d’s.
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I did some stuff for Miller Brewing that actually got me work for them.
Same with a few other clients years and years ago.Good luck Trevor
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Well, Holden, its all about the demo reel. Period.
I had some anxiety coming here for the same reasons you do. Am I good enough etc. Well, the dirty little secret, as I see it, here in LA is that there is work for you at various skill levels. I was near the top of my field in Chicago here in the USA for 5 years. Chicago is our 3rd largest city. LA is 2nd. I got hired in LA at CBS which was what I wanted then, THEY paid to bring me and my family out to LA. I loved the setup in Chicago, BUT, I ended up hating it in LA at CBS. Bad organization, out of control ego’s and no real synergy among co workers. I could not of predicted that. Things went great in Chicago. But, like I wrote, personalities and politics can rear their ugly heads some places, where as others places seem to gell nicely.
They hire ‘mid level’ designers ALL THE TIME, when I see ads. I needed to feel NOT that I was near the top of talent here in LA, but rather, that I was good enough to be in the “mix” so to speak.
Really it comes down to how adventurous you are, do you take risks. It took me until I was 39yrs old to finally get out here. I wish I came out here 10 years earlier at least.
Show your reel to as many people as you can, get feedback, get a feel for where you “fit in”
do you have a current reel?
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Hey grin, I want in on that ‘talk about their Dog billing!’ your amazing!! 🙂
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wow, you sound like you want the OPPOSITE of what I love. I own my own small business and take on all kinds of projects as my own boss. Working alone. The more co workers, the more opportunity to share ideas, AND the more opportunity for office politics and personality clashes. Careful what you wish for.
Disney, Pixar, and a number of other large studios will offer you what you are looking for, but you may end up in groups that work on miniscule portions of projects that may remind you of what you used
to do. Everyone of us is different, so you need to really be honest with your goals. Break it down
for example#1 MONEY: how much do you need to be happy or survive. Decide that IN ADVANCE.
#2 TASKS: what ‘in a perfect world’ would you love to designanimate. 2d – 3d teach be a generalist?
#3 CONTROL: Do you need to ‘own’ the project. OR are you fine sharing partial credit for work done.
#4 HOURS: working for someone has the allure of regular hours, in reality, you may work more hours
than you ever wanted to, and possibly with no overtime pay. Do you have a Social Life?There is more to consider, but I did one thing to help me with the types of options you are considering. I moved to Los Angeles. There is so much work here of ALL types that you can try
out a place and if your unhappy, you dont have to move to be just blocks from another possibility.
LA is certainly not the only place you can do this, but just a bit of advice.Good Luck
Scott
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I would second Giant Octopus, Ive done some design work for them, they do a ton of broadcast design packages.
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Scott Novasic
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great question Jessica, but there is no ONE correct answer. Are you billing hourly? Do you have a ‘day rate’? Personally, and I do a lot of 3d, I factor it into my bid on the project. Where it can get sticky is revisions, in my experience. My company, SuperNova, has more than one CPU, so I can offload renders
and still get work done on the other computer. In this economy especially, I never want to be seen as nickel and diming my customers to death.Another way to put it, is that when the project is being discussed, in YOUR mind you need to go through what it will take you to do the job. Bid carefully with all issues considered.
Some larger corporations may require you to ‘break down’ your bill. Even then, I may list rendering as a category, but charge $0 for it. Factor it into another area. I feel it again puts you in a good light to
basically ‘include’ that for nothing. (so to speak)again Jessica, this is just one persons opinion. You need to assess all of your situation, and do what feels fair and right for that client….
good luck
Scott Novasic
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Scott Novasic
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you do NOT ‘create ellipse’ you use the ellipse TOOL to manually draw an ellipse which will essentially crop your solid area in the shape of an ellipse. When you choose stroke and select paint style ‘on transparent’ the solid center of the layer will disappear leaving ONLY a white stroke around your ellipse. Animate it any way you want.
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not easy, I have used shatter with the pieces set at the smallest possible, and mixed it with a bunch of other filters to aid in the illusion. But that only goes so far. Obviously, if you have mad skills and own maya, a true hi end particle system is the true way to go, but not all of us are there yet. I have a sample of letters blowing away that is sort of close to what your talking about, on my demo reel.
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open a new comp, create a solid of any color. Use the ellipse tool to draw a circle. Then under plug ins go to generate – stroke. Make paint style on transparent and animate the start and the end of the stroke to taste. There are many ways to do this even easier than this, but its what came to mind quickly
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects