Saturday, 10 October 2015

Who am I now?

The Five Things I have learned so far on the programme:
  1. I am able to use professional softwares I have never used before to animate for instant like Aftereffects, Maya, Photoshop and Premiere etc. The courses and the projects require an enormous use of technical devices and therefore learning to use them is unavoidable and something that I would eventually master. Since the increase of animating methods, more choices are given when processing the animation. 
  2. I have learned how to reflect efficiently and effectively. As we have to blog everyday about the working process, it is very useful to reflect briefly in order to find out the problem hence solve it. Reflection enables myself to spot what needs to be improve and how can I do better which improve the quality of the work and also the quality of myself.
  3. I pay more attention to the current animation industry and how to study a piece of art. I look at animation in a different way by studying the technique and the concept behind while being more critical and providing constructive opinion. Studying from the professional triggers creative ideas and a good way to learn new techniques.
  4. I learned to be prompt and to manage my time effectively. Scheduling the work and set an efficient timetable is extremely essential in order to be organised and hand in work on time.
  5. I become more confident at public speaking as I learn to relax and present loudly and clearly in front of the class. Also giving out constructive feedbacks and suggestions as an audience and interact hormonally in the class.
The 5 Things I want to know more about:
  1. I want to learn more about Maya. I am not a computer person but it would be changeling for me to use a 3D computer programme widely in different projects as well as increasing the 3D work in my portfolio. 
  2. I want to know more about the basics of animation for example go deep into the 12 principle of animation and have a intense project on it so as to build up a stronger foundation and drawing skills.
  3. I want to know more about the filming of the animation. It would be exciting if we can visit the actual production of the animation studios and learn about the reality of the industry as well as how much we need to prepared ourself before stepping out of school. I do not think I am well prepared for the future and the course does not really linked to the reality of this industry in my own view.
  4. I want to know more animating methods and techniques. There is a lot of possible ways to animate and I wish we could all try them out. 
  5. I want to know wether I am prepared to be an animation in the future. To be honest I sometimes doubt about that and I want to find out the answer for it. I hope there will be an answer at the end of this year so that I can set up an aim and eventually reaching it.
The 5 skills that I think are my strengths:
  1. I am well prepared for everything. I like preparing and this is what I feel most confident about for example I will like to do a lot of research and brainstorm before I start. One thing I hate is working close to deadline which gives me panic and stresses me out.
  2. I am good at observing people's features and facial expression. I always like to study other's emotion and guess their feelings which provides a lot of interesting information about the person and what they have experienced. Psychology intrigues me a lot.
  3. I love drawing anime character. This does not only benefit me when drawing cute girls but this set a foundation for drawing a well-structured body. I have learned how to get the right proportion and gesture of a person which ease the reaction of a character. 
  4. I am multi-cultural which brings a lot of interesting elements in my animation and my opinion would be a huge different to the local students. The education system and the experience I had makes my ideas stand out from the class sometime and I am quite proud of it.
  5. I am a good listener in group. It might be considered as quite and not so constructive but I like to come up with an idea that everyone like. Overall it is important to have a idea that group member feel happy and confident to work with and I am alway being that position in a group.
The 5 Things I like to improve:
  1. I want to improve drawing skills which could enable a more refine character or background of the animation.
  2. I would like to increase my motivation. Sometime laziness drives over me and this year I am going to fight back.
  3. I want to improve the quality of all my work by working delicately toward perfection(but efficiently!)
  4. I want to speak out more during group discussion so as become more interactive.
  5. I want to improve on the animating skills especially in Aftereffect. This is because I feel like there would be a lot of opportunity to work with Aftereffect in the future while it is a amazingly good software therefore I want to master it in order to achieve more variety of style in my animations.
The 5 practitioners that demonstrate my interest in Animation:
  1. Hayao Miyazaki-Studio Ghibli, they have a tremendous inspiration on me in both the way I approach to the story line and the conceptual character creation.
  2. Tim Burton
  3. Disney and Pixar
  4. Nintendo SPD game- Fire Emblem, by creator Shouzou Kaga
  5. Macross Project
The 5 websites/online resources that demonstrate your areas of interest within the creative industries:
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