It started off with Paul Wells starting a conversation between him and the speakers, addressing different frequently asked questions about the animation world for stop motion animators nowadays. After the little talking session they opened themselves up for questions from the audience. This time on a smaller scale, which made it all nice and homey.
Upon the question on how to stand out in such a fierce community that is the world of animation they gave some pretty solid advice:
Find a bit that you're very good at and excel in it. Allrounded animators are hard to find because there aren't many. Studios rather have animators who are professionalised in that what they enjoy most doing. "Leech" off other people's skills since you are a collaborator in this world, start collaboration as soon as you can.
Specialism -> Evidence in show.
There are three types of skills important in this world:
Specialist skills. Specialise in that what you enjoy doing to stand out from the crowd.
Generalist skills. It's always good to have some general skills as a trump card.
Transferable skills. This world is all about networking and communication.
It all comes down to three keywords:
Collaboration
Innovation
Creativity
I really liked attending this talk on such a small scale because you feel more involved to the conversation (without even speaking though, still.) They were genuine and nice people and open to any kind of conversation and open to a lot of questions. When we got some free playtime to talk one on one with them, perhaps ask for autographs or photographs, they didn't back down from any question and it felt to me they were truly honest.
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