Bloom studios

Bloom Studios

Bloom was one of my first choices of studios due to their university roots and versatile range of bespoke animations!

Here is the segment describing themselves which I found very poetical:

Bloom Studio produces bespoke, high quality and engaging animations for any medium or platform.  Specialising in film, TV and web, our work is a true collaboration between the worlds of computer graphics, film and fine art.

The business launched in 2010, blossoming out of Teesside University’s award winning DigitalCity Fellowship programme, which has created over 130 new innovative businesses.Co-founded by animator Albin Nilsen and VFX programmer Martin Davies, Bloom Studio’s work unites technical skill with creative artistry to create genuinely unique work. When presented with a new challenge the company draws upon a broad range of skills within the team as well as an extensive network of collaborators and industry freelancers to create a truly innovative and collective solution for our clients.

The variety of animation on their showreel was awe inspiring with various film projects as well that all make the showreel top quality. The only thing I thought was quite surprising was that the show reel was their 2013 one, this makes it seem out of date. It is one thing that I am going to do with my show reel and that is to keep it up to date with all new work that I have done throughout that year. 

Bloom was the studio that I wrote my cover letter for, as it was my first contact due to my appeal of the studio. The way of applying for the studio was unexpected, there was an on-line form to fill out where you stated your skill set and your software of choice and secondary skills. There was also an additional information section to which I wrote:

I submitted an application previous to this one, but since then I have improved my showreel and added some extra sections of my most recent work that I wanted to share with you.

I am currently at university coming the end of a 3 year animation course at Leeds College of art. After studying the traditional methods of animation and the principles of animation through the first year of university I slowly started exploring 3D animation in Maya where my skills and knowledge flourished which in turn intensified the fire in my head to pursuit a career in 3D animation and modelling. My main focus is modelling and animating characters in Maya to create the most realistic and life like animations full of emotion. I also have been modelling sets for a number of years for stop motion animation as I still have a fond love for crafting sets and miniatures. Through the breaks at university I was responding to various briefs given to me by Datomec Design where I would complete various tasks such as animating a given character performing a short French script as well as replicating an art gallery, hosted by Datomec, in Maya to a photo-realistic result.

The reasoning behind my opening sentence was mainly due to an error message I was experiencing straight after I uploaded my CV and that was as follows:

'CAPTCHA session attack failed'

which I think caused my first application to fail as I didn't receive a confirmation email, which is what they said I would receive to let me know they received my application. But after using a different internet browser and trying again I received the email:

Hi Mr Elliot Gascoigne,

Thank you for your interest in our company.
We appreciate the time you spent filling in those details, Everything went
ok, we've got your application.

If anything suitable comes up we'll be in contact.

If you don't hear anything from us for a while and you've got new stuff you
think we should see please just come back to jobs.bloom-studio.com again and
fill out the form again.

Thanks,
Bloom Studio Team

So with this email received I can now wait to see whether they contact me. I might email them directly if I don't hear from them in a long time and after I get a little more content for my showreel. What I really liked about this application was that one of the skills you could put in the form was Runner/intern which is what I want to be initially, a runner.