Personal contact...not the filthy kind

We where given the task to write about our own personal experiences to describe how personal contact can give you inspiration of a creative opportunity for you.

I have quite a few experiences of being personally meeting artists. One such person was Tobias Fouracre who works for Tandem Films, the company may not be a house hold name but he worked of such wonders at “the corpse bride” by Tim Burton. I was also lucky enough to meet Chris Randall who works for Second Home Productions. Second Home Production isn’t such a big name as Tandem as them manly do work for art theatres.
I managed the meet these people at a talk called DigiToons in Birmingham, but they all mentioned the same thing, Drawing. They said Life drawing was the most important skill you have is the creative industry.

At the same talk but different location I managed to meet The Brothers McLeod who work for Cbbc among other things.
The Brothers McLeod had a comply different attitude then the people in suits mentioned above. Although they where around 35 years old there attitude was much more down to earth, I felt this created a much more creative atmosphere and I couldn’t help but doodle during there talk.

All of the people above all started with basic life drawing skills, and through out there talks life drawing was mentioned several times. I thus believe personal contact is important to create inspiration for personal ideas.