Re: FLASH: Illustrator with a querstion

[John Dowdell]

At 5:46 PM 5/29/0, rodney entwisle wrote:

> I was wondering if there is any need for Illustrators and animators

> in this feild. It would save a lot of retraining in a feild where

> I have only average tallent. It would be a lot more productive all

> round if it was possible to find companies producing flash productions

> that need top quality visuals.


I know this isn't much of an answer, but the one of the key skills is

indeed conveying the client's message to your audience. If you can find a

visual way to express the desired ideas, and do it economically and work

well with the team, then the technical angles of the various tools just

accrue on a day-by-day basis.


Put another way, many employers these days may use "Flash experience" or

"ecommerce implementation" and the rest as a quick litmus test, but these

aren't necessarily related to whether you can get the project done to the

client's satisfaction. Visual communication skills are still very, very

highly valued. The tech stuff you can pick up, no problem.


(Well, it *seems* like there are problems with tech stuff, particularly

when you're on deadline, but all of us just absorb this nerd stuff each

day... everybody's in the same boat there.)


It can be hard to prove to someone else that you're worth the bet,

particularly when you don't yet have the expected litmus test results, but

if you can visually communicate and want to learn the new delivery methods,

then I definitely think there's demand... not sure if that's of any

concrete help, but I hope it may be....


jd






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