BZ Summer Internships 2016!

The summer is on its way! That means it’s time to announce the details of the Blue Zoo Animation Internships 2016.

Internships have always been one of the best ways for inexperienced artists to get their first step into the industry, and many past interns at Blue Zoo have transitioned to become full time staff.

So this year we have a range of internship opportunities, across different skillsets and departments.

The internships roles will be working alongside experienced animators and artists, on real projects, so you can gain an invaluable experience and insight into life as an animator.

For all the internship opportunities we have, no formal education or work experience is required, but you are required to demonstrate a genuine love and talent for the craft of making animation or CG art. We want to see evidence of self-motivation, self-learnt skills, and what art/animation you have made in your own time.

You will need a showreel demonstrating your skills in creating CG animation and online portfolio of artwork. The showreel doesn’t need to be long, ideally no longer than a minute - we just want to see your core artistic and creative skills, and attention to detail.

We have four internship opportunities this year, each of which will take place in June/July for 6-8 weeks. The four roles are:

* Generalist Animator/Artist working in our Commercials department

* Character Animator on a children’s TV series (2 internships)

* CG Modeller/Texture artist working in our series production department

Who are the internships ideal for? Someone who intensely wants a career in making fun, playful cartoony CG character animation - if you want to do stop motion, hand drawn or VFX animation this probably isn’t for you!

This is a paid internship - applicants will need a valid UK work permit / EU passport.

Position are open for artists to apply to TODAY - you can register on our jobs website, and we will contact the successful applicants in the first week of May. Unfortunately we’re unable to respond to unsuccessful individuals due to the volume of applications - if we had time we would!

Application closing date is 2nd May 2016 - GOOD LUCK!