CoMotion
When is CoMotion: Around Late winter / early SpringWhere will it be? Arnold Hall / SCAD Museum of ArtHow do I sign up for Portfolio Reviews?How do I sign up to be a Volunteer?
Submit cover images for all submissionseLearning Students email your submissions to Dominique Elliott atdelliott@scad.eduThere shouldn’t be any video files in the design category,just a PDF and your cover image.Files cannot be larger than 100MB.We have attached the guidelines PDF to this post. We have also added an example submission to the Collabspace in the "_example" folder!If you have any questions, feel free to ask any of the MOME Love officers.
The CoMotion branding contest is held in the Fall quarter when everyone is given an opportunity to pitch the creative direction for next year's CoMotion title sequence and event branding. All submissions are anonymous, and the winner is voted by the students in one of the club meeting.
The winner gets to become the creative director and select his/her team members to take on the designing and animation of the CoMotion. Be it being the creative director or selected for the team, both are prestigious roles in serving the MOME Love community.
If you are selected, be prepared to commit much of your time to CoMotion during the winter quarter. You will be required to attend a meeting every Saturday for at least three hours to work along with your team for the title sequence.
Aside from your school work, CoMotion should be your priority during the winter quarter. Yes, CoMotion is alot of work but the benefit is that you get to have an awesome portfolio piece and the ability to collaborate with your peers in a huge team! Working on CoMotion is a collaborative project closest to the real-world standards as it demands you to work, and communicate with your team effectively.
This article covers the things I learn from CoMotion 2018 on March 2nd and 3rd, a student sponsored and organized event that brought together top industry professionals with Motion Media Design Students at the Savannah College of Art & Design. The goal of the event is to connect students with potential employers and prepare students for their career by offering diverse insight into the industry.
This year, we had a whopping lineup of forty awesome companies to attend the event and review students’ portfolios. Also, check out the title sequence that 26 students worked on for the event!
Yes, while CoMotion is a great opportunity get a job / internship offer, that is not the purpose (unless you are a senior/ graduating student). What you want to do is simply be human; impress the companies with your work, have meaningful conversations about each other, learn about the companies and their practice, etc.
CoMotion is an event where you let people know you exist, because one day when you graduate, you are going to meet these people again somewhere in the industry, so be a person that they would like to work with in the future.
It may seem like an easy question, but it is a tough question for me as a generalist who has a broad spectrum of work. The companies that reviewed me always asked that questions, and I found that my answers were rather vague.
One advice from a company was to be specific on what you want to do. For example, you want to be animator, what sort? Character? 2D? 3D? Fluid simulation? If you have not narrow it down to what exactly want to do, do some personal exploration on what you enjoy.
I had many unplanned encounters with various companies and individuals such SMT, Wieden+Kennedy, Zublime, Buck, Peter Clark, James Heredi, and so on. All I did was simply show up and somehow life just directed me to them. I spoke with a representative of Zublime because he was very tall. My brain couldn’t process that. I later got a postcard from him when we met again at the closing reception.
Even though CoMotion is a time to impress the visiting companies, take the time to look at your peers’ portfolio during their downtime. They would be more than happy to show you their works and exchange feedback about yours.
Aside from showing your showreel, show companies personal projects that you are working on. For me, I showed my daily drawings and NoSleepCreative. Of course, it depends on the companies that are interviewing you as they are looking for different things. During my portfolio reviews, one company really enjoyed my NoSleepCreative website and we chatted about how important sharing knowledge with our peers and colleagues is.
The event is over, everyone goes back home, the hustle is finally over. or so you think. The final thing you need to do is write back to the companies that reviewed you or people you met and say thank you for coming.
Bring up a significant conversation you had with the other party. For me, I wrote “I really enjoyed that conversation about design over prestige when we were talking about about content for my showreel” . By doing so, you remind the companies of who you are and what you talked about. They probably met a lot other students and may not remember the impression and the conversation you had with them exactly.
