Storyboard Artists in "Severe Skills Shortage"

Storyboard artists "skills shortage"

Storyboarding continues to be an area of "severe skills shortage" in the animation industry, according to a recent report from Screen Skills (the organisation formerly known as Creative Skillset).  Screen Skills reports a shortage among "storyboard artists, story supervisors, story revisionists - across all levels". 

Industry has been telling us for many years that storyboarding is an area of critical skills shortage.  As animation production in the UK has expanded rapidly over the last five years, the supply of talent has not kept pace, hence our new MA in Storyboarding, which starts on 28 June.

Open Doors Event With Creative Skillset At Escape Studios

Open Doors with Creative Skillset. From left: Andy Brassington, Simon Fenton, Davi Stein and me

Last week Escape Studios hosted an “open doors” event with Creative Skillset – the UK body that supports the creative industries and helps get students the right kind of training. Skillset has an excellent relationship with Escape Studios because we specialise in preparing our students for industry, getting them the right skills, making them employable and job-ready.  Open Doors was an opportunity for aspiring animators and VFX artists to hear from our panel of experts about careers in industry, and also do some networking afterwards. Best of all, there was free pizza.