Non attending students don’t lack motivation: they lack ’Atomic Habits’. As we attempt to cram more instruction, more software demanded by industry, more entrepreneurial and business skills into the same 3 year cycle, we owe it to our learners to fortify them with a framework for coping, and build up their motivation levels.
Tag: Saint John Walker
7 Myths about University Study
This is an article I prepared for Access:VFX. I’d been finding that people were starting to stereotype Universities, especially as they tried to articulate the value of apprenticeships. It’s as if it’s necessary to paint University study as all ‘academic tomes and ivory towers’ in order to position Apprenticeships as the binary opposite. People don’t…
Suspended Animation? Some thoughts on the missing hemisphere of Animation skills
Theres plenty of allies for solving Animation Industry Skills Gaps in Higher Education, says Saint John Walker,; you just need to give them a forum.
No more stories- let’s start building Worlds
(This is a slightly expanded text based on an article I wrote for the April 2018 edition of 3D Artist magazine.) It’s said that when Catherine the Great made a grand tour of the Ukraine in 1787 down the River Dnieper, Prince Grigory Potemkin was so keen to impress her that he ordered fake village…
Deeply moved? The problem of motivation and recruitment in the Creative Industries
Could the creative industries help their recruitment of new entrants by examining and manipulating the dynamics of motivation within young people, and revisit the language we use to portray our world to them?
The forgotten and future history of the Core Skills of VFX Repository
The original vision of an open and accessible online repository of training assets and documentation, raising standards of training in VFX universally, with donations from companies, training organisations and Universities alike seems further off now than a few years ago. What might this say about the industry to learners who want to belong? You’ve probably…
Rubble Trouble: World Building without a hard hat
Before pixels, both Architects and VFX artists were physical model makers. Today, they have each have made the transition to planning and constructing digitally, using similar if not identical software to create hugely detailed virtual environments towards different ends. VFX Course Leader Saint John Walker and Associate Professor in Architecture Jonathan Ellis-Miller have started collaborating…
The 8 (or 9) Studio Habits of VFX
We need to stretch the definition of VFX away from being a ‘guns for hire’ service industry for films to an art that can imagine and build new worlds that exist in their own right. The 8 Studio Habits of Mind can help us do this.
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