I feel that I should update my whereabouts on the whole research side of my Masters, that being getting animation contacts to help me with my essay. I currently have sent off 35 emails to animators with varying backgrounds, from various countries and with various skill sets. Some of the animators include; Ed Skudder, the lead animator for the web series Dick Figures, who recently created the Dick Figures (2013) film. Jake Ganz, the creator of Studio Yotta, a Flash based studio which specializes in frame-by-frame animation and have worked on numerous projects such as Smash! by Starbomb and OKKO: Let's Be Heroes! on Cartoon Network. I also contacted the animators who worked on Ethel and Ernest and animators who worked on Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie.
Currently out of the 35 emails, only 10 have replied, these include Yotam Perel, Max Collins, Haakon Ziegler and Steve Stark to name a few. However, after checking through the replies that they all sent, I unfortunately will be able to use 3 out of the 10. The reason behind this is because most of the answers were either to short or too ambiguous. However, the 3 that I am going to use are incredibly insightful and will help me greatly. I wont use the 3 names but I am very grateful for the amount of effort they put into helping me.
So far, I am realizing how difficult it is to get people to email you back. Many people said they would get back to me in a few days, and never got back to me, which can be both stressful and disappointing. I am hoping that over the next week more people will get back in contact with me, I will send out more emails over the course of this week in the hopes that people will get back to me.
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