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Wacom Career Days is a unique 3-day online event featuring presentations, discussions, and portfolio reviews, aimed at assisting creatives with varying experience levels to navigate the available career options and maximize their employment opportunities.
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14:00 CEST | 13:00 GMT+1 |
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It's All About YOU |
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Alexander Wätzel from dgtl-craft postproduction will talk about the importance of focusing on your self-brand and will share tips, tricks, and hard-earned insights from his career. |
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17:00 CEST | 16:00 GMT+1 |
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Using social media to generate income as an artist |
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In her presentation, Loish will talk about how social media works, how you can create a strategy aimed at gaining more exposure, and tactics to use that exposure to generate income, like commissions / Patreon / etc. The talk will include some exercises that viewers can do in their own time to help them build a strategy for themselves. |
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20:00 CEST | 19:00 GMT+1 |
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Navigating Career Choices |
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There are so many exciting opportunities for a young creative person today. Whether it's concept art for games, 3D modeling for TV and film, design for web and print, or even becoming immersed in VR, AR, and MR projects. I would like to share my journey so far and how I have to make important career choices even now. I'd also like to explore how to make yourself different in an oversaturated marketplace. |
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14:00 CEST | 13:00 GMT+1 |
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Framestore Art Department from Sketch to Screen |
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An insight into how 3 prominent artists within the film industry work. Discussing effective processes, Creature Design, Environment Design, approaching a brief and their experiences in the Concept world. |
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17:00 CEST | 16:00 GMT+1 |
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Pitching and producing unique stories that entertain globally, and other studio insights |
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Join award-winning Triggerfish Animation Studios as they share some tips on pitching ideas to major partners. How to keep going when the odds are stacked against you and the importance of remaining true to yourself and producing diverse content and more. |
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20:00 CEST | 19:00 GMT+1 |
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Nurturing and Developing Young Creatives for Future |
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In this talk, André Luìs from THU has a friendly chat with Wacom EMEA PR Manager Jeroen where they discuss the value of bringing creatives together and giving them a space to be themselves, tips of working around imposter syndrome, and how to create an environment online and offline for more introverted creatives. |
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14:00 CEST | 13:00 GMT+1 |
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Art of Business |
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In this talk, Darek Zabrocki will share with you the secrets of being a successful concept artist who made his passion into a business. Negotiating rates, building a respectful artist brand, diversifying incomes through running multiple businesses, acquiring new clients are amongst the topics he will discuss during his X minutes talk. |
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17:00 CEST | 16:00 GMT+1 |
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Portfolio review and advice |
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A chance to have portfolios reviewed and receive guidance and advice from leading artists within Framestore's art department on how to improve or how to be recruited. |
20:00 CEST | 19:00 GMT+1 |
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Let's Talk Business |
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The closing session of Career Days features a relaxed fireside chat with Wacom global senior VP Faik Karaoğlu and Mike Jelinek, Senior Product Manager at Wacom and an experienced concept designer. Faik and Mike will talk about the pure business side of having a creative career and discuss the differences and convergence of creativity and business. We invite our audience to actively participate in this session with your questions and comments. |
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