Why you chose to study on this programme?
- It combines my favourite subjects in school; Computers and art
- I'm simply fascinated by animation
- To improve my skills to make a viable career out of it
- To meet and be inspired by other people like me who love animation
- To advertise and put myself out there in the creative industry
What do you want to learn?
- How to properly plan and execute a project till completion
- Collaborate, work in groups and network
- Receive and give useful criticism
- Allocate budget and resources for a project
- To express myself clearly through animation
What skills do you think are your strengths?
- I draw a lot, so I think I am have the right mindset to improve
- I'm good at improvising around problems
- I need minimal planning to understand what I'm animating (might be a bad thing, though)
- I work well in a team
- I am quick to grasp concepts and ideas
What are things you want to improve?
- My ability to persevere and actually complete an animation
- Planning an animation with storyboards and scripts
- Developing ideas and stories beyond simple slapstick comedy
- The presentability of my work (by professional standards)
- Effective and appealing character design
What ways will you evaluate your progress?
- Establishing my current work as a baseline and comparing it to work at the end (at regular intervals)
- Reflecting in the blog entries
- By how efficiently I go from brief, to plan, to finished product
- By how clear my message/story is in my work
- Being able to understand where I went wrong and what could've been done better
