Job Opportunities

As you can tell by the title, this topic is about jobs. Jobs involving graphic design and anything in the fields of the graphic world. I've been thinking a lot about this topic and I will probably cover this topic again in the future. I took into consideration Ayham's comment about Pixar and Dreamworks and it's funny how I was thinking about that originally and how I love the movies and shorts they produce. I remember in the eighth grade...right? Yeah! In the eighth grade we had a career day I believe it was, and a design specialist from Dreamworks came into Mrs. Velasco's class and showed us what his job is and how important every single person in their community of Dreamworks is truly linked and intertwined with the story. He showed us a preview of the newest Shrek; though it wasn't truly complete, it was in the last stages of polishment. From what I can remember, that was the only profession that truly captivated me. I was amazed at what he did and so thrilled to be hearing from him! But as an eighth grader, it was immediately sent to the back corner of my brain in the pile of trash just collecting dust until someone files it all.

Back to Pixar and Dreamworks. I did some research and found the job listings within both systems and rooted almost 75% of them back to the general category of graphic design. Amazing, right! Probably not to you, but to me, yeah! I mostly like drawing straight lines and words, which could most likely put me onto the storyline team that creates the actual title of the movie. i mean, how cool would that be...seeing a movie that you were apart of and seeing the title on a poster that came from the hands of your own. But then again, I feel that drawing straight lines is just a time waster because of school. I feel that I can open up more doors to other types of drawings that I could get into, maybe even help create the structure of the characters or something of that sort. I even looked through all the Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar movie titles and found errors where I would put my own little spark to make it more appealing to the audience and fit the movie scheme better.

This is only animation. I looked through other job ideas and opportunities, the most common were for online businesses, or magazines. Then again, I feel like that is the most interesting sub-category to the whole area of my expertise. I don't like those words; I'm no where close to an expert. Yeah, both of those have the boom and the pow, but where's the zang? I'd feel more interested and happy with my job working with the hotshot animation companies. But I feel there's more to these jobs then just having a wicked freehand. When I think of animation, I think of lousy claymation figures meeting and greeting and then fulfilling an unusual activity for the objects. That being said, I can't stand the Tim Burton movies. I'm not basing on him, his movies just scare the hell out of me. Even though it's more than that, I have never been the type do the real world hands on animation. I'd rather be apart of a computerized animation crew behind the scenes of Brave or Tangled.

And then again, isn't animation truly based on imagination and creativity? All movies that I've seen created by those companies are more than just creative; their brilliantly put together and perfectly shaped. I feel I can contribute my own creativity. Even though most of you don't actually see it, but I am. Not to sound conceited but I feel that I'm a bit of an odd apple in the basket. I see most things differently than you, but that also makes me human. We all have our similarities and differences. As of right now, I'm wearing my extremely large Captain America pajama bottoms and the 3D glasses that you get at the movies without the lenses (it makes me feel more like the "blogger" stereotype, judge me all you want) and I'm drinking my suicide from Safeway. A suicide is a mixture of all the drinks on the vendor, not to be confused with anything else. I see shapes and details I never thought I could see. I have finally started to realize that I do just a couple years ago. It's not an OCD, I checked. I'm a special being, and I just think I would have a blast working at Pixar or something like that.

Thanks everyone, have a wonderful day!

Karl K.