Titmouse Recruiter: Portfolio Tips & Tricks

We get a lot of questions about how to make your application stand out or format your portfolio, so I put together this presentation for you! Take any advice anyone tells you with a grain of salt, but I hope this serves as inspiration for your journey to employment. -Ellen
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[@moreteaplease6833]

11:58 character design + landing page 15:40 prop design 17:37 background design/layout 18:49 background painting 20:10 storyboard 23:14 animatic editor 26:28 animation 28:24 compositing

[@pascalnovadrich6276]

20:00 storyboard 26:20 animation

[@scriptyshake]

Wow, this presentation is a gold mine of information! I learnt so much about making portfolios and overall getting the recruiters to see your work, thank you so much for making this!

[@someone-nm6fs]

Too late got Job at McDonald's

[@Guillotinesmuse]

Dw it’s every artists canon event to work at McDonald’s

[@milhouse901]

I'm a graphic novel illustrator looking to get into storyboarding, this was so helpful, thanks!!

[@andrewruttan3318]

Thank you for taking the time to put this presentation together. Being an artist sometimes can feel like being a nomad- migrating from project to project. I appreciate you sharing the perspective of a recruiter looking through talent. Hopeful this info will be useful for redesigning my portfolio and approach to connecting with opportunities. Much love to all the friends at titmouse, and good luck to all the aspiring artists out there hoping to get noticed.

[@AnimatedAndrew]

Thank you so much for uploading this! It would be a dream come true to work for you guys and I will definitely try and reconfigure my portfolio, social accounts, and emails with the tips you covered here!

[@elenashopeworld]

Your showreel is so inspiring! I want to be that great one day

[@ginnyhawes284]

Wow! Thank you for the back room advice! So many helpful details!

[@Cearts]

This breakdown and insight was so perfect. This kind of info is sooo needed lol 🤓🧐💭. Thank you taking the time to do and share

[@dysn3961]

Thank you very much for this vid, it's super helpful! Also for those wondering about gifs, I might also recommend gifcam, where you can screen record a section to record (or take a shot frame by frame) and convert as a gif. It's super helpful for me when I'm using a regular drawing program and want to see how the different frames are looking in sequence.

[@dorota_sloma]

Thanks so much for preparing this presentation! A lot of great tips!! It's so valuable to hear recruiter's perspective!!!

[@GaKnewRoxwel]

Thank you for this. It is EXTREMELY helpful

[@troawayz]

this is such an amazing resource thank you so much.

[@ginataylor2405]

This was really interesting and informative, I definitely picked up some neat tips - thank you Ellen!

[@Lucyyfurrx]

Thank you so much for this!! 💚

[@DennisTamayo]

The Vancouver studio did the animation on both seasons of the Animaniacs revival for Hulu, with the 3rd season coming soon.

[@attilamityok7652]

Very happy to hear this as a Vancouverite XD

[@prieto1rr]

Such a great video. I love animation. I hope to work on production accounting on a animation project

[@DominickvdHoff]

This was really insightfull! Thanks for sharing this!

[@Kataraang0]

Thank you so much for this, it's tremendously helpful! And timely, alongside workshops for SCAD's career fair :)

[@pepelepeau]

This is great! Thanks for the video.Amazing info! Oh, and I went to SVA too!

[@charliemacsart]

This was a great help! Thanks so much!

[@gokupniak]

Awesome! Thanks, Ellen!

[@margotatgogomo6242]

Thanks for this, very helpfull

[@AlliandoX]

Well articulated ! Thx!

[@nas0518]

I'm gonna be visiting Titmouse Inc soon.

[@lazybackup1]

God damn thats a lot of qualifications.

[@rovertarthead]

Someone from titmouse told me I LOOK like I work there… yeah from that then what do I do from there?

[@nothere3982]

Hi I was wondering if it was necessary to link your real name. I know it may be a silly question but I wanted to remain anonymous due other personal projects. Would that still be possible or would it affect my possibilities?

[@Adios-o1i]

¡Thanks!

[@vitrusha1]

Wow! Great info! Creative people love to create, and there is infinite space for improvement, so that could be endless. Important to have some directions and cancel out the rest of the noise. I like the part about - "What problem would you rather solve every day?" because creating something for self-expression is kind of different from being useful, proactive, and working with a team. Thank you so much! I'm wondering if is it important to use your real name? because I work as a graphic designer "by day" and my real name LinkedIn profile ties in with my Graphic Design resume so I wish to use another name (like..NAME..studio for example) for my animation freelance gigs and job applications.