A visit from Mair Perkins

In one of our lectures Animator and Illustrator Mair Perkins came to talk to us about her work since leaving University and how she set up on her own as a company.

Hearing people working successfully within the art world is brilliant because it can be a bit scary thinking you won't get a job and even more scary when you have many, many people telling you that you won't be able to get a job and that what you do is just a 'hobby.' 

Mair is a former pupil from the University of Derby. When she was applying for University she knew she wanted to do something involving Animation, Illustration and Storyboarding, that allowed her to have a creative job, but she didn't have a specific job role in mind. Mair chose the course in Derby because it offered animation, illustration and graphic design modules. She liked how there was an emphasis on communicating through sequence imaging which she still draws upon today in her work.