Lights, Camera, Stop Motion!
Art DeParty at Razor Productions
An Art Department networking event encouraging those seeking creative jobs in the entertainment industry.
The Art Department Stop Motion Animation networking event at Razor Productions was so fun and a true group effort, delivering a bonding experience and learning new skills, gaining peer connection, and illustrating the community we are in the most charming way!
At ArtCube Nation, the community is everything. Overall, the networking event at Razor Productions was a nourishing experience that brought people together and left everyone feeling inspired and happy to be a part of this Art Department Community with some new skills under their belt.
WATCH THE STOP MOTION ANIMATION WE MADE!
Prep Day for Stop Motion Concept
THE DIRECTOR AND CLIENT PINPOINT A CONCEPT:
Eva Radke and Rachael McIntosh collaborated on a stop-motion animation concept. These are some of our notes…
STOP MOTION SCOPE OF WORK (SOW)
- Create an animation that encourages people seeking creative jobs in the entertainment industry.
- to realize they absolutely have a path to the dream all they need is ArtCube Nation, talent, and some hustle.
STOP MOTION VISUAL CONCEPTS
“Everyone Brings Something to the Table”
Message:
You have valuable, unique skills that apply to this type of work.
Diverse creative people bring their SKILLS to the table. That counts for experience.
STOP MOTION CHARACTERS + ACTIONS
Everyone’s hand, coming in with a tool that slides out of their hand and into a tool belt? slide on, wiggle, dance, bring tools, hammers, rulers? What is affected? What can we show?
“Create For / Your Life”
Message: You can have a creative career, you design your path, with a like-minded community. Creative people have individual dreams, and together, can make a bigger dream come true/real Creative people together can make big dreams real
First. We craft.
Each member was asked to think of a word they associate with this unique community of Art Department crew, freelancers, and makers.
Then, they crafted inspirational cards from scraps and all kinds of random things around Razor Productions’ studio! The result is not only adorable but heartfelt.
Prep Day for Stop Motion Concept
THE DIRECTOR AND CLIENT PINPOINT A CONCEPT:
Eva Radke and Rachael McIntosh collaborated on a stop-motion animation concept. These are some of our notes…
STOP MOTION SCOPE OF WORK (SOW)
- Create an animation that encourages people seeking creative jobs in the entertainment industry.
- to realize they absolutely have a path to the dream all they need is ArtCube Nation, talent, and some hustle.
STOP MOTION VISUAL CONCEPTS
“Everyone Brings Something to the Table”
Message:
You have valuable, unique skills that apply to this type of work.
Diverse creative people bring their SKILLS to the table. That counts for experience.
STOP MOTION CHARACTERS + ACTIONS
Everyone’s hand, coming in with a tool that slides out of their hand and into a tool belt? slide on, wiggle, dance, bring tools, hammers, rulers? What is affected? What can we show?
“Create For / Your Life”
Message: You can have a creative career, you design your path, with a like-minded community. Creative people have individual dreams, and together, can make a bigger dream come true/real Creative people together can make big dreams real
WORDS and PHRASES members used to animate what ArtCube Nation represents to them.
- Rise Up and Start Changing the World
- Inspiration
- Window of Opportunity
- Unity
- Create
- Solidarity
- ISO my People
- Cord Cutting through Art Making with ArtCube Nation
- Enable, Connect, Empower, ReUse
- Lost Treasures
- Together
- Hearten
- Resources
- Try, Try Again, Try with a Friend
STOP MOTION SHOOT DAY!
FIRST WE CRAFT THE CHARACTERS
Each member was asked to think of a word they associate with this unique community of Art Department crew, freelancers, and makers.
Then, they crafted inspirational cards from scraps and all kinds of random things around Razor Productions’ studio! The result is not only adorable but heartfelt.
MANY THANKS TO...
Razor Productions
Stop Motion Studio
Rachel McIntosh for her generosity of time, space, and years of experience that she is willing to share with the rising professionals. Rachel is a creative director, art director, fabricator, and stop-motion animator with over 200 animations under her belt and the added bonus of an eco-conscious, sustainable, and mindful production model she builds clients’ worlds without harming this one.
This space is available for short-term rentals for your projects, be they animation, podcast recording, or any flexible space needs you might have on a sliding scale, so contact her to sort the details.
Micheal Russel
Content Creator, Photographer,
and Actor
Member for two years and is filming and photographing tonight for social media and other content and hustled here from a wedding to be with us!
He’s incredibly talented, wonderful with people and has an infectious energy that puts people at ease.
Hire Michael Russel for your next intimate party or huge corporate event!
Zobo Custom Creations
Custom Engraving Service
Former Art Department Crew turned Entrepreneur made a flurry of custom merch for this event!
Zobo made some super cool keychains with a 4″ ruler so we could use them to scale. The guests loved them! Watch the merch reveal!
Watch the founder open
Zobo can make wrap party gifts, custom props and anything you need – and gets the film industry madness!
Jas Non-Alcoholic Cocktails
Alcohol-free cocktails
Jas generously sponsoring non-alcoholic beverages for a sensory evocation of the classic Mexican cocktail, Paloma Libre.
JAS was founded by the visionary beverage entrepreneur, Cecilia Rios Murrieta, who believes that living alcohol-free doesn’t mean missing out on anything in life.
We had an Sunday night event and we were so pleased to have an option to intoxicants in a “school night”! Plus, you don’t need alcohol to network, you need hustle.
WANNA HAVE A PARTY?
ArtCube Nation’s networking events always have a twist.
We like to sprinkle in experts and speakers, creativity, fun prizes, and offer the opportunity to Business Cubers to sponsor the events for goodwill and better relationships.
There is a symbiotic relationship between Vendors and Freelancers in the entertainment industry. Crew needs reliable and trusted sources, Vendors need loyal clients, repeat business, and word-of-mouth referrals. Relationships matter, so we gather.
EVENTS BUILD COMMUNITY
Gatherings at ArtCube Nation are an important part of how we serve the Business and Professional Members and one of our Seven Core Values.
Sure, Art Department jobs are the main draw, that’s been the case since 2007. But, you can go years of “knowing” someone by their posts and never meet them!
Typically, there is just ONE Production Designer, ONE Art Director, ONE Art Department Coordinator, etc, on set. That can be isolating and stressful if there is JUST ArtCube Nation to turn to when you have an urgent issue on set or just want to bounce an idea off someone you can trust.
So how do you connect with peers and vendors? Art DeParties.
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