Zane Whittingham

Recently I went to a lecture featuring Zane Whittingham, an animator with 20 years of experience and organiser of All Animated, a network of animators in the north of England. He has worked for companies such as CITV and Teleimagination and primarily works using Flash animation, which is very interesting to me as that is the software I use the most. He spoke about the importance of knowing how much you are worth in the industry and that college work is essentially your first job. When it came to working for free he instead suggestion working 'for other things' such as publicity, but never truly for free. He also suggestion making networks and interacting with other animators through conferences, making a strong network is the best way to succeed when going freelance.