Theater to Film
March 27th 2008 19:04
Helen is from Northern California. Her background is theater and performance art as a writer, director and performer. For eight years, she lived in New York City. There she struggled as an artist, before she decided to come back to her rightful place in California.
Shortly after her return to the West Coast, Helen ran into an old acquaintance from the theater world and hired her on at his digital imaging production company. Her tasks involved sweeping floors, making coffee, painting walls, cleaning toilets, among other various and sundry grunt tasks.
It was during this grim but thrilling and glamorous phase of live action that Helen discovered the joys of animation production. Working on a live action commercial provides about a week or two of employment, tops. An animated commercial provides 8-12 weeks of production work. Helen thought, "I really do love cartoons."
And off she went to learn all the ins and outs of slaves building pyramids out of paper and paint.
Helen worked as an animation production manager for six years expanding her knowledge to embrace traditional animation and computer animation. She became responsible for the overall production of commercials, music videos and television. This included handling the budget and schedule while attending to the diverse needs of anxious producers, directors and exhausted crew.
Helen is happy with her digital media work because she has a steady job that pays well; plus she is doing what she loves the most -- art.
Shortly after her return to the West Coast, Helen ran into an old acquaintance from the theater world and hired her on at his digital imaging production company. Her tasks involved sweeping floors, making coffee, painting walls, cleaning toilets, among other various and sundry grunt tasks.
It was during this grim but thrilling and glamorous phase of live action that Helen discovered the joys of animation production. Working on a live action commercial provides about a week or two of employment, tops. An animated commercial provides 8-12 weeks of production work. Helen thought, "I really do love cartoons."
And off she went to learn all the ins and outs of slaves building pyramids out of paper and paint.
Helen worked as an animation production manager for six years expanding her knowledge to embrace traditional animation and computer animation. She became responsible for the overall production of commercials, music videos and television. This included handling the budget and schedule while attending to the diverse needs of anxious producers, directors and exhausted crew.
Helen is happy with her digital media work because she has a steady job that pays well; plus she is doing what she loves the most -- art.
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