CV - Research

Making a cv is something that can be messed up pretty easily judging by any previous attempt I've made at designing one.

So, here are some places I looked for help until I found my inspirational source:

The cv of Animator John Hedley

A cv of another animator from animark:

CURRICULUM VITAE

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Mark Flynn	Essentials:	Age: 30 Location: Leeds, UK Email: markflynn@animark.net
Skills	Autodesk	Maya 3d Studio Max Character Studio MotionBuilder
	Adobe	Photoshop
	Pixologic	ZBRUSH
	Corel	Painter 7
Titles Released	PS2	Buzz Quiz sports edition (Nov 06) Outrun 2006 : Coast to Coast X-Men 2 Wolverine's Revenge
	PC	Broken Sword 4
	PSX	Treasure Planet Stuart Little 2 Muppet's Monster Adventure Eliminator
Employment	May '06 - Present	Shin'en Multimedia. Muenchen, Germany Title: Freelance Animator/Modeller Role: Modelling and animating main characters and boss's Contract: Not Released yet
	Feb '06 - May '06	Kuju Entertainment Ltd. Sheffield, UK Title: Character Animator Role: Animation on player characters and prize cutscenes Contract: Buzz quiz "Sports Edition"
	Feb '05 - Oct '06	Sumo Digital. Sheffield, UK Title: Character Animator, Concept Artist & Modeller Role: Character Animation for Broken Sword 4, Character Animation & Modelling for Outrun 2, Concept art for demo's Contracts: Broken Sword 4 & Outrun 2006
	Jul '04 - Nov '04	Argonaut. Sheffield, UK Title: Senior Character Animator Role: Character Animation for character and Boss characters Contract: Zorro - not published
	Jan '04 - Jun '04	New Media Collective. Leeds, UK Title: Character Animator, Concept Artist & Modeller Contract: Various web projects
	Nov '03 - Nov '03	R8 Games. Leeds, UK Title: Lead Character Animator Role: Rigging and Animation for all main characters Contract: Criminalympics - not published
	Oct '02 - Jan '03	Genepool. Manchester, UK Title: Character Animator Role: Animation for in game characters Contract: X-Men 2 Wolverine's revenge
	Dec '01 - Oct '03	R8 Games. Leeds, UK Title: Lead Character Animator Role: Rigging and Animation for all main characters & responsible for scheduling and maintaining Animators workload Contract: Criminalympics - not published
	Mar '99 - Jun '01	Magenta Software. Liverpool, UK Title: Lead Character Animator Role: Responsible for all aspects of character creation, including 2d content design, low polygon modelling, texturing and animation, & responsible for scheduling and maintainging animators workload Contracts: Muppet Moster Adeventure, Snoopy Mania, Treasure Planet, Stuart Little 2 & Eliminator
Education	1996 - 1998	Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin, Ireland Course Title: Multimedia Design Qualification: Diploma in Multimedia Design
	1994 - 1996	Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin, Ireland Course Title: Classical Animation Qualification: Diploma in Classical Animation

This pdf from the University of Arts in London is very to the point and helpful in exactly what needs to be there in a creative CV.

I like the complete simplicity and white space in this cv from Commercial Venture but the layout of the images is all over the place.

Then there is this cv from copywriter Daniel Headey. The simplicity and layout seem to work well, and although it stretches over far too many pages, the hand written style of it works well for me.


What I've gathered from this research is that CV's should be short and to the point, but also stand out and express the person who is sending them, whilst also being tapered somewhat to their recipient. I would think that a cover letter would be a better place to exactly pin point your audience so I'll take that into account.

It's alot of information to present but what I may need to show are:

name
contact details and address
skills
achievements
qualifications
where i've worked and references
and a description of who I am.