Join a community of local small business owners in and around Bristol to discuss business challenges, problem solve and get advice. The free meet-up will be hosted by Enterprise Nation Bristol local leader, Dan Martin.
Enterprise Nation has created the Heads Up campaign to build communities of small business owners throughout the UK who can support one another. Whether you’ve got an idea for a business, have just started, or have been running your business for years – this meet-up is perfect for anyone who wants to make connections, ask opinions and share advice.
Please join the meet-up with a business challenge in mind (which you are comfortable sharing with the group). Together we will offer suggestions, discuss possible solutions and bring some fresh ideas to the table!
A three day maquette making for animation course, taught online via Zoom with George Watson. Cost: £300 + VAT.
DESCRIPTION
A maquette is a 3D model of a 2D character design. It’s a useful – in some instances essential – stage in a model making build in order to test out the scale and viability of the design. It shows how the design translates to 3D and makes it clear if the finished animatable model will be fit for purpose. A maquette not only helps to flesh out the character of the design, but it can also save time as well as costs in the next stage of the model making build.
Participants will need to have a pre-vetted design of a human shaped character which they will construct into a full body maquette.
Armature construction will be followed by sculpting with oil-based clay. Participants will be given constructive feedback on their work from their tutor and peers.
The aim is not to finish with a finely detailed maquette by the end of the course, but participants will have a good representation of the 2D design which should give a strong sense of character and form.
The maquette could also be a useful addition to a portfolio, either as it is, in one colour clay and/or after the participant has digitally colourised after completion of the course.
Alumni of the course can access a Facebook page to stay up to date with opportunities and connect with fellow alumni.
SCHEDULE
Day 1
Participants will begin by making a bust maquette from a pre-chosen design that they will be shown on the day. Without having had time to practise beforehand this will help to show what it is like to interpret the brief as a model maker and will help to teach participants about facial anatomy and structure. The day will end with a group discussion where everyone’s work will be viewed, and feedback and useful tips are given.
Day 2
Participants will first construct the wire armature for their full body maquette of the character they have designed, and the tutor has vetted and will begin to roughly flesh out their armatures with oil-based clay.
Again, the day will end with a group discussion and feedback.
Day 3
Participants will continue to flesh out the armatures. The tutor will discuss their concepts and also the anatomy of the character as well as sculpting techniques. Throughout the day they will be sharing their work with the group and receiving feedback. On completion of the course participants will have a strong 3D representation of their 2D design, ideally posed to give a sense of character.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The course is designed for intermediate to advanced model makers and animators keen to enhance their skills. It’s also useful for animation directors who often use a maquette to pitch for a job to help bring a design to life for the client.
Both drawing skills and sculpting skills are required in order for the participants to get the best out of the three days.
WHEN & WHERE
Tuesday 10th – Thursday 12th November 2020 – 09:30 – 17:30 GMT.
Register your interest: [email protected]
This course will be run via Zoom so participants can work from home. An invite will be sent out on the day.
COST
£300 per person plus VAT at 20% = £360.
All materials can be bought for an additional £50 plus VAT or a supply list can be sent.
HOMEWORK
Participants will need to send a human shaped character design in a fortnight before the course begins in order for the tutor to check it will work within the proportions of the armature as well as the schedule of the course.
What if all those late-night hours you spent writing 20-, 30- or even 50-page proposals were needlessly wasted? Imagine if you could have won the business you won — and lots more — by limiting your proposal to one page and going to bed at the usual time.
“The Deck” is so highly ingrained in the creative professions that many believe you cannot possibly win a new account without it. Not so, says Win Without Pitching’s Blair Enns. Blair writes about the one-page proposal in his book Pricing Creativity; A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour, but not everybody who encounters this idea is able to embrace it. Blair proposes to fix that.
A long-term friend of Bristol Creative Industries, we’re thrilled that Blair is joining us once again from the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, to share his thinking that has changed the way creative services are bought and sold the world over.
Join Blair on Thursday 17th September (4-5pm) for a discussion on the one-page proposal:
Booking is via Eventbrite – click here to book your place.
We’re asking Bristol Creative Industries members to make a minimum donation of £10+VAT per person. For those who are in a position to do so, a donation of £20+VAT per person would be appreciated. The cost for non-members is £25+VAT per person.
Blair is the founder of Win Without Pitching, the sales training and coaching organisation for creative professionals, and the author of two books on selling and pricing for creatives.
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto, published in 2010, has sold over 30,000 copies and launched a revolution in how creative and marketing firms approach developing new business development.
Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour, published in 2018, is a comprehensive guide to value-based pricing for creative firms. It is available in multiple formats, only at pricingcreativity.com.
Blair also hosts, along with David C. Baker, the podcast 2Bobs: Conversations on the Art of Creative Entrepreneurship. According to the UK’s The Agency Collective, 2Bobs is the second most listened to podcast by agency owners, after The Tim Ferriss Show.
Blair lives in the remote mountain village of Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada. He can be found online at winwithoutpitching.com and @blairenns on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Bringing the Bristol business community together, to meet, learn, network and help get Bristol back to business.
Bristol’s first virtual Business Festival will have 10 segments, each representing a key area of the economy, with its own keynote speaker, giving the big picture; expert panel sessions for in-depth discussions; workshops to learn; networking to connect; and an expo area to do business.
There are 10 keynote speakers & expert panels who will cover the following business areas:
A virtual event to fit around you schedule, relevant to your business, bespoke to you and hop in and out from home or the office.
The demand for greater choice, flexibility and meaning was challenging leaders to think differently about their approach to talent and the workplace even before the pandemic hit. Recent experiences have just deepened these desires and been a catalyst for broader change in how agencies work, behave and operate – as businesses, and communities of people.
What comes next for the world of work is not a ‘return’ to anything. It’s a transition to a new era and every business needs to raise their game when it comes to how they lead, the culture they create and how they support and leverage their best talent. Get the balance right and it will be a win-win for your business and the people you want to stay and draw.
Based on detailed research and hands-on experience in recent months, we will explain how agencies need to respond to these new expectations. We’ll share our knowledge and experience and explain how you can manage change in a way that sets your business up for success.
This event is for Bristol Creative Industries members only and aimed at all agency founders and leaders seeking valuable insights to help shape a positive and progressive working culture for their agency.
This is the third event in the Future Positive series. The next session on 7th October will cover how to create and manage business value. More details to follow on this.
Places are limited to allow for a more personal and productive discussion. To reserve your space, register here
Whilst this is a free event, we’d be grateful if members would consider making a donation.
Although some of our members have been unaffected by COVID-19, we recognise for others this is still challenging business climate so we want to do what we can to support. As many will know, Bristol Media operates as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company and revenue comes solely from membership fees and events. We receive no other funding or financial support. We’re hopeful that the donation approach will allow all members to continue accessing our events whatever their financial situation whilst also allowing us to replace some of the revenue we’ve lost over recent months. All our speakers give their time and expertise voluntarily. Thank you for your continued backing and we hope that you’ll be able to support this approach and look forward to being able to deliver a series of worthwhile events that our members enjoy and importantly find beneficial to their businesses.
We’re the business consultancy to add clarity, colour and confidence to your ambition.
We add our collective knowledge and specialist expertise to help you realise your full potential and value.
The Future Positive series will be run by the Tonic senior team, who will draw on their experience leading and guiding some of the best agencies through challenging times.
To find out more about Tonic, click here.
Following on from his first two talks over the summer, Spencer Gallagher, Co-author of the best-selling book Agencynomics and Co-Founder/CEO of the UK’s leading growth consultancy Cactus, will be joining us online for his third and final event: Future-proofing your Agency services.
Spencer will share some of the new planned updates to Agencynomics that have evolved over the past couple of years, as well as post-Covid.
He will talk about the importance of future-proofing your Agency’s services to protect you from commoditisation, to protect your pricing and to keep your services in demand.
We will also discuss how Agencies should approach evolving their services in the new environment of exponential, business and technical growth and transformation.
Anyone working in agencies within the marketing, creative and tech sectors
Click here to book your place. We’ll send the Zoom link before the event.
We’re asking Bristol Creative Industries members to make a minimum donation of £10+VAT per person. For those who are in a position to do so, a donation of £20+VAT per person would be appreciated. The cost for non-members is £25+VAT per person.
Spencer started Agency life in 1999. He successfully built, ran and sold his Agency, Bluhalo, in 2008 to Gyro and took Bluhalo/Gyro to the 8th largest Digital Agency in the UK in 2009. Gyro is now part of the Dentsu Network.
Today Spencer runs Cactus, the leading UK Agency growth consultancy, helping owners of small-medium sized independent Agencies in their growth journey.
Spencer is passionate about sharing his vast Agency knowledge and helping Agency founders grow and scale their businesses. He is also the co-founder of Cactus Academy, the online training arm of Cactus launched in 2020.
Together with Cactus Co-founder, Peter Hoole, Spencer is Co-author of the best-selling book, Agencynomics. At the end of April 2020 Agencynomics was launched. A new global community dedicated to helping Agency people solve their challenges, by providing them with ethically sourced data and the knowledge to make informed business decisions.
Agencynomics is now the largest, free of charge, social enterprise community in the UK for Agency Founders.
Collaborate Bristol is The South West’s leading UX, Ai and Design conference. The conference returns for the eighth year running, aimed at encouraging sharing, learning and networking within the digital community.
The event returns to the Watershed, offering a unique chance to network with peers and learn from top brands and internationally renowned speakers against the backdrop of Bristol’s floating harbour.
Sonja Radenkovic – Head of UX & Design at TomTom
Chris Richards – Creative Director at Nomensa
More speakers announced soon! Keep an eye on our Twitter for updates: @CollaborateConf
Do you have questions about Collaborate Bristol 2020? Please contact [email protected] or call 0117 929 7333
Ticket cost covers refreshments including pastries on arrival, tea and coffee throughout the day and a buffet lunch.
If you’d like to get your brand in front of 200+ digital professionals at Collaborate Bristol, we’d love to hear from you: [email protected] / 0117 929 7333
£90* Early Bird / £120* Standard Release / £145* Final watershed Release
A 3-day intensive costume making course in which participants make a shirt complete with collar, cuffs, button and tucks.
This course is designed for people with basic hand and machine sewing experience who are looking to develop their skills and have an interest in producing well fitting, beautiful looking, functional animation puppet clothing.
Working with quarter-scale patterns to create a shirt in three days to fit the bust provided, participants will make their own buttons using sculpting, moulding and casting techniques.
Throughout the process they will be guided by experienced puppet maker Nancy Stott who has worked in the animation industry for the last twenty years.
At the end of the course each participant will have one on one time with Nancy to discuss their finished shirt and their personal objectives.
Every participant will have their finished shirt photographed on a white cove providing them with professional images for their portfolio.
7-9th October 2020. Register your interest: [email protected]
£900 + VAT
Ann Hiatt delivered her popular keynote for Bristol Media members two years ago and we’re delighted that she’s back.
The Coronavirus has thrown us all into a period of rapid reinvention where we need to reinvent ourselves, our companies and our business models quickly just to survive. Leaders are having to pivot and make critical decisions all without an understanding of where the finish line might lie and when we will find a new-normal.
Ann has worked directly for three of the most powerful tech CEOs of our lifetime. At Amazon and Google, she witnessed their actual paths to greatness – which were far less linear than they appear in retrospect. The common denominator between these powerhouse CEOs is that they, just like Olympic athletes, never stop training, learning and improving.
Join us on Wednesday 12th August (12.30 – 1.30pm) when Ann will break down their formulas for learning while in the spotlight in a way that increases your authority and respect while demonstrating humility and willingness to learn. You will learn how to increase your influence, power and legacy through learning and stop feeling so lonely at the top.
This is a free event for Bristol Creative Industries members although we’d encourage our members to make a donation if possible. There is a charge of £20+VAT for non-members.
Whilst some of our members have been unaffected by COVID-19, we recognise for others this is still challenging business climate so we want to do what we can to support. Bristol Creative Industries operates as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company and revenue comes solely from membership fees and events. We receive no other funding or financial support. We’re hopeful that the donation approach will allow all members to continue accessing our events whatever their financial situation. This also allows us to replace some of the revenue we’ve lost over recent months. All our speakers give their time and expertise voluntarily. Thank you for your continued backing and we hope that you’ll be able to support this approach. We look forward to being able to deliver a series of worthwhile events that our members enjoy, and, importantly find beneficial to their businesses.
Ann received her initial business training during 15 years as the Executive Business Partner to Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon) and Chief-of-Staff to Eric Schmidt (CEO and Executive Chairman at Google/Alphabet). She now consults with executives and companies across the globe to reverse engineer their moonshot goals and get results. Ann is a sought-after international speaker and is on several advisory boards. Ann has recently relocated from Silicon Valley to Europe and brings with her a unique perspective on what it takes to succeed in business today.
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