Alice Britton is co-founder and director at creative digital studio Squint/Opera. She tells the Dezeen Jobs careers guide what it's like to produce award-winning films and content about the built environment.
Britton's position as director at Squint/Opera sees her guiding a team of designers, animators and visual-effects (VFX) artists to create immersive content centred around the built environment.
The creative studio produces digital media for organisations including the V&A, the Empire State Building and the Weill Cornell Medical Institute, through a varied portfolio of short films, animated CGI and virtual reality.
As part of her role, Britton is constantly on the lookout for talented artists to collaborate on content, whilst simultaneously exploring potential clients to partner with. "Media design is at the core of our studio's work and my role includes finding opportunities to design immersive content into the built environment and visitor attractions and how that can inspire new interactions and different forms of participation," Britton explained.
"The aim is always to engage the audience through amazing content."
Britton co-founded Squint/Opera with a group of friends whilst at The Bartlett in London. She reveals that although she was passionate about architecture, she is more interested in telling stories, making films and creating visual imagery.
Choosing not to pursue a career as an architect, Britton states her architecture degree still ...