LAUAN502 - Studio Brief 2- Study task 3 : RoosterTeeth brief profile

Established in 2003 by 4 people, Roosterteeth is production studio prioritised in the production of net-based entertainment. Their first major hit was Red vs Blue , an animated series created using the game Halo : Combat evolved , thought to have kick-started a whole new genre of animation : "Machinima". With production started in 2003 and still on-going to this day , the series is the longest running web series of all time , and had garnered the company massive success and influence.

As time goes, the company grew to now housing roughly 200 employees, with their content expanding to podcasts, live-action , feature length film, animation, gaming , new,events etc with a significant global reach of audience. This was due to fact that as part of their core business model , they maintain an extremely close bond with their audience ( either through their main website or other media) , choosing to produce "things that you would like to see" and having company's personalities interact with the internet fan-base regularly. The name of "RoosterTeeth" itself stems from line in Red vs Blue, and is considered a tribute to the fans. Overall, if anything, the studio is an example of a successful company for the digital and connected age.

RT Animation : 

Established in 2014 and headed by Mr Gray Haddock , following the company model of aiming at internet-based audience

Productions :

-Red vs Blue : Long running popular hit 

-X-ray and Vav : 

-Camp Camp

-RT animated adventures

-RWBY : 3D Anime style animated show, garnered a huge global audience and success, and gain significant attention in Japan as well - Introduced a much wider audience to the company and is undoubtedly one of their biggest show. 

-Gen:lock (TBD) 

Growing from 4 guys doing machinima from an xbox , the animation team now makes use of the all the modern software and hardware including industry-standard 3D softwares like Maya and also the use of motion capture. 

LAUAN502 : Studio Brief 2 - Chosen contact

My chosen contact will be Rooster Teeth's art director : Mr Patrick Rodriguez , who's work included some of RT's most popular show like RWBY, Camp Camp and is also the host for some show on RT's website as well. Given my interaction with the company over the last couple of months ( as well as my fascination for the company itself ) , I feel really good about this decision , especially since even though we technically "worked" together at one point, I knew almost nothing about his past experience or history in art.

RT Animation team 

LAUAN502: Studio Brief 2: - Potential contacts

Patrick Rodriguez - Art director (Rooster Teeth)
Erin Winn - character designer/ illustrator (Rooster Teeth)
Gray Haddock - Animation director (Rooster Teeth)
Rob Doherty - Director of Programming and Distribution (Larkshead media)
Sam Wright - Director (Bumpybox)
Michael Franchina - Concept artist (Blizzard)
Ted Beargeon - Senior Concept artist (Blizzard)

LAUAN502: Manchester animation festival 2017

For me , the focus of this year's MAF was less actually watching animation and more on networking and going to masterclass to see the inner workings of studios from the industries. In that respect , I found this year to be extremely interesting , especially with the masterclass of Betram fiddle and NEXUS foucusing more on games and interactive animation , in the case of Nexus, VR. It really shows the potential of where animation was heading and inspired me to try out more 3D stuff in the future. However ,the most important thing that it was my first time going in to a networking event and meeting professionals. Though just normal the interaction ( introduction/conversation ) at most, this event has boosted my confidences in social skills, as well as broadening my connections with people like Mr Rob Doherty from Larkshead Media who gave me some really good advice, as well as alumni from our own and other university.

LAUAN502 - Study Task 5 : Social Media

Current media :
- Reddit
-Twitter
-Facebook
-Tumblr
-Artstation
-Deviantart

Use : Artstation/ Deviantart used for main display of work, which is then cross-post to tumblt , twitter, and so on...

Considering the subject of my content ( fanart/ anime ) I target my post to sites that have a connection with those communities ( for example RWBY) via hashtags, specific subreddits , micro blog, etc. That way I found that my content is shared through much quicker and gathered a more significant presence online overall.

Good standing within your own community => expansion to other

Artstation is my current professional display while the rest serves as delivering sites to it, I'm also considering expanding to linkdln and Instagram in terms of professional sites.

PLAN: post regularly (3 times a week) with the relevant topic to Twitter and smaller sites to keep the presence up , while continue doing work to upload onto Artstation for building a professional portfolio

LAUAN502 - Study Task 4 : Networking

Opportunities :
- MAF (Convention)
- London Animation club
- Leeds ILLO ( Facebook)
- GAMAYO (Facebook)
- Manimation
- RTX (Convention)
- Artstation
- Cuberbrush
- Linkedln
- Twitter.