Animator/Digital Artist - How to enter the job - The first knowledge sharing application in Vietnam

Tama: Holy Quacatomole, if you’re wondering what that means that makes two of us, anyways Nan always said I was a bit of a Haututū. That’s why I’m on your computer screen and if you’re a bit of a Haututū like me, use your passion as your drive to find the right job for you.

It just made me famous.

Izzy: Hey Bestie!

Qeyloux: Yeah?

Izzy: I’m thinking.

Qeyloux: I’m not, I never do.

Izzy: Well you should be.

Qeyloux: About what?

Izzy: A career after school.

Qeyloux: Ok, so let’s do it.

Izzy: OK.

Qeyloux: Kia Ora Bro, what’s your guy’s name?

Vincent: Aw Bro, my name is Vinny Egan.

Madison: I’m Madison Henry Ryan

Izzy: Where do you guys work?

Vincent: Ah we work at this creative place called Maui Studios in the building known as The Promised Land and we are part of the Digital Natives.

Qeyloux: What exactly do you guys do here?

Madison: We’re like those kinda creative entrepreneurial type dudes, if you were to label us we would probably be digital Haututū. We just like came up from Dunedin, graduated in Dunedin and we found ourselves in this epic, creative environment that’s thriving full of CEO’s and Māori people who are just striving to achieve the best that they can be.

Izzy: What inspired you guys to get into this sort of industry, into Maui Studios?

Vincent: I suppose that a lot of it is the fact that we are Haututū so we’re like those cats that grew up in High School always getting in trouble for drawing on our books and stuff like that. That kind of translated like after we finished our degrees and started like internships and things like that. That same kinda nature just kept propping up, instead of doing our other work we would be I don’t know working on websites or designing characters or whatever.

So we just kind of rolled with that whole Haututū idea and ended up turning it into a business and career somehow.

Izzy: Could you give us a specific example of barriers that you’ve had to cross?

Madison: Ultimately it’s like, you have to pay the bills at the end of the day obviously but at the same time you wanna be chasing your passions or chasing what you are passionate about. That’s why the whole idea of us staying late nights at the studio, working for free, just doing things that you are keen to do.

Vincent: Failures are so key, if you make sure that you are learning from them. Cos like you could fail a thousand times and if you don’t take anything from it then it’s definitely a bad thing for you but if you make a big like stuff up and then you find out what it is that you did wrong during that stuff up and then you do things to make sure it never happens again, then that failure if anything it looks like a step forward, instead of like a step back.

Qeyloux: Hey Bro, what are you up to?

Madison: Just having a jam here at one of our Ngā Atua Māori, so this fella here is Rongomatane he’s like the god of peace and cultivated food.

I’ll just go through a bit of the process with you, sort of broken all down into layers, so at the moment come down, go all the way down and start off with just lines and then as you come along you add another layer of colours and then you are trying to build a bit more detail so we add shades that sort of builds and you can add highlight and stuff like that.

Izzy: Kia Ora

Vincent: Bro we should have a jam.

Qeyloux: Bro we’re good.

Vincent: Have a go, bro just have a go.

So you see I am doing this on the left-hand side of these kind of rocks things.

Qeyloux: Yeah so the sun is kind of coming in, the lights coming from over here.

Vincent: Mean Bro, Go on…

Qeyloux: Yeah.

Vincent: Bro you are just a natural man…smashing it.

Qeyloux: Yeah.

Vincent: Izzy I am gonna give you a lesson too so we are gonna go have a jam on the whiteboard.

Sweet Izzy so I am gonna give you a real brief lesson on how to do character design.