After Watch Dogs

I got a chance to talk to Colin Graham after the Watch Dog talk, who worked on the Naruto Ninja Storm and Assassin Creed games. He gave advice on what he would want to see if someone was applying for an animation or game based job:

If you want to get into this industry, learn french, make a game to show to the interviewer, show what you can do. 

He personally made an action based animation, showing all of his skills that he had learned in a 1 minute animation, and he got the job. If you want an internship, don't waste their time, be motivated, show what you can do for them and more.

I felt that this was good advice with creating an animation that shows everything, all the movement and show off the skills that you have. I feel that this would work well as a showreel, showing the action parts of each animation I had done for example, or even creating a different animation that just shows action, no dialogue, just kinetic movement, in different camera angles and possibly using different techniques and styles, such as follow through to rotoscope and using a traditional rough pencil to 2D digital animation.

- Always research, practice and don't give up!