Exit Entry x IBM SkillsBuild Challenge 2022
Further Information for Art Teachers
IBM
Our partnership with IBM began in 2021 when we added the IBM SkillsBuild Badges to our app to give post-primary students easy access to free accredited learning modules. For this competition, our combined goal is to promote learning in the creative arts through the use of technology and to highlight the potential opportunities in this sector to post-primary students.
Windmill Lane Recording Studios & Pulse College
Earlier this year Windmill Lane Recording Studios and Pulse College joined the Xplore platform on our student app. We knew that they had lots of amazing content and resources that could be shared with post-primary Students looking to pursue a career in the creative arts. After the success of the SkillsBuild Competition in 2021 Exit Entry knew we wanted to include them in some way. We decided that there was a great opportunity for the prizes in the competition to be based around giving students an opportunity to work with and learn from various industry experts who are currently involved with both companies.
Jennifer Kidd (Prize #3)
Since completing her MA in Animation at the RCA in London, Jennifer has worked on a number of stop motion animation commercials, kids tv series and feature films such as ‘Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires’ and ‘Isle of Dogs’ in both the puppet fabrication and puppet maintenance department throughout filming.
She has developed her skill set over the years through working on various projects and has based her career on creating puppets and props for stop motion productions worldwide and has set up a studio in London specialising in puppet and miniature prop fabrication. In between productions, Jennifer lectures across the UK teaching advanced puppet fabrication to BA and MA level students looking to further develop their skills and portfolios for production opportunities once they have graduated.
You can find more information about Jennifer on her website here.
Gary Erskine (Prize #3)
Gary Erskine is primarily an illustrator with over thirty years’ experience working mostly for MARVEL and DC Comics, as well as many other comic industry publishers including Image Comics, Dark Horse and 2000AD, on properties including Captain America, Judge Dredd and Batman.
Gary teaches character design, storyboards, game design and illustration at Fife college, hosts various creative workshops in schools and libraries, delivers educational banners and flyers for promoting science to the public, and hosts graphic focused sessions as an invited lecturer at universities around the UK. He also provides storyboards for the film and game industry, and for TV commercials, and offers commercial design services and editorial art for print. In his spare time, he writes, draws and self publishes his own work.
You can find more information about Gary on his website here.
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