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HOW DO I USE ACME?
ACME is about sharing your work to an audience of peers and professionals, and giving and getting feedback. ACME is diverse in membership and artistic perspective, so the more you share your art and ideas, the more everyone learns.
USING ACME AS A:
LEARNER
TEACHER
PRO
USING ACME AS A LEARNER
YOU EARN ACCESS— YOU EARN ADVANCEMENT
ACME members help themselves and help others. Members advance from Auditioner to Intern to Apprentice, based on the quality of their work. By uploading your work for peer review and giving helpful comments to others, you earn ACME Points (Blue Points for uploads and Orange Points for helpful comments). Use these points to show your work for feedback from professionals. Build up your point total for more professional review!
WHERE TO UPLOAD ARTWORK:
Audition Gallery is where Auditioners show and discuss their work. Interns, Apprentices, Educators and some Pros also give feedback here. The Audition Room is a great place to get mentored!
Showtime Gallery is ACME’s main public gallery. College Level, Interns and Apprentices show works-in-progress, and give and get feedback. Sometimes, the professionals will make comments here too.
University Review Gallery is where high school Auditioners they believe meets college admission standards. Work is reviewed by instructors from universities and college art programs. Once you have 10 artworks approved, your Univeristy Portfolio is viewable and you become College Level.
Pro Review Gallery is where College Learners, Interns and Apprentices place work that they feel meets the highest standards: Professional portfolio-ready. When you spend points to place work here, Up to 3 professionals will evaluate your work and tell you whether they believe it meets professional standards. When 2 professionals agree that it does, that artwork goes into your Professional Portfolio. When you have 1 artworks approved that is not a Life Drawing, you move from College Level to Intern.When you have 3 artworks approved in this way, you become an Apprentice. When you have 10, your Pro Portfolio becomes public, and you can continue placing more work in it through the Pro Review Gallery.
Pro Advice Gallery is where College, Interns, and Apprentices spend points to get advice from at least 1 professional animator on works nearly ready for a portfolio.
Sheltered Gallery is where you and your class and teacher may show work and exchange comments among yourselves. These “private” classroom galleries are available to teachers for their classes.
No Points may be earned or spent.
Master Classes are galleries too. ACME offers Master Classes, where selected professionals assign special challenges and mentor groups of Auditioners, Interns or Apprentices over a number of weeks. All members can view current and archived Master Classes.
Members spend points to join.
HOW TO UPLOAD ARTWORK:
CLICK HERE
ACME POINTS:
CLICK HERE
WHAT ARE PORTFOLIOS?
Learners of all levels should work on an ACME portfolio. It’s how you advance to the next level.
University Portfolio—for a high school student who is an Intern, who intends to apply to college. Senior Educators determine whether the work meets admission standards for top arts colleges. 10 approved artworks = University Portfolio becomes public.
Professional Portfolio—for an Intern who wishes to become an Apprentice, and for an Apprentice who wishes to become a professional animator. 2 pros must approve each artwork.
5 approved = You’re an Apprentice! 10 approved = your Pro Portfolio is viewable on ACME, where many studio recruitment executives look when they’re hiring.
WHAT ARE ACME CHALLENGES?
The professionals at ACME have designed animation challenges for all levels of ability and including all aspects of the art form. Each challenge gives you much room for using your creativity while you take on one or more important animation principles. Remember, there are many ways to solve these challenges. But there are many more ways to do them poorly! Check the Challenges link often for new challenges.
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR PARTICIPATION
ACME gives you tools for you to personalize your experience.
Project Folders—Every artwork that you upload to ACME needs to be in a Project Folder. You can work on several projects at once and place the work you do on each in separate folders. Sometimes, professionals will want to see the roughs you’ve done for a particular project. If you keep them all in the same folder, the pro can easily access them. You can also upload them to different galleries from the folder, or delete the artwork from your project.
Edit Profile—You can change your bio information at any time.
Bookmarks—You can bookmark another ACME member and see all the work that he or she posts. Also, you can bookmark a single piece of work and return to see if it has received more comments.
Manage Portfolios—As soon as you have enough work for a public portfolio, you can manage the information inside it. Assign a thumbnail that people will click on to view your portfolio. Write something about yourself. For Pro Portfolios, you can even specify what kind of animation career you are looking for.
Join a Forum—ACME has a growing number of forums for members to discuss animation, ACME, films, game design, and related subjects and more. There are also special forums for tech support, educators, and professionals.
INFORMATION/RESOURCES
Resources—ACME has hundreds of resource pages about animation. They include all aspects of the art form, with definitions, drawn and video examples, links, and suggested readings. Many even include examples from ACME members’ projects.
Clip-of-the-Day—Each day, there’s a video clip where a professional animation artist explains an important aspect of animation. Many of these clips are from ACME Animation On-Air, our videoconference program.
ACME Stars—Check the ACME Stars link to see who’s been featured. ACME is a community and ACME Stars are members who’ve made progress in their artwork and helped others with excellent comments.
Pro Picks—Check the Pro Picks link to see a gallery of work that the pros have selected as an important example of an animation principle. Don’t forget to read the comments the pros have given. You can apply these ideas to your own work.
ACME News—Updates, notices about upcoming events, and links to the world of animation can be found here. Write the editor if you have a story or link you think should be added.
USING ACME AS A TEACHER
Please Read the Learner Section and Watch Videos from the Top of your Personal Page.
USING ACME AS A PRO
New Pro interested in Participating
Contact pros@theacmenetwork.org
How to Participate
Watch the video from the top of your Pro Page.
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