Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want to learn?

For the first study task set for PPP, it asked for me to think about why I decided to take this course and answer some questions, which I felt helped me to understand myself better through the goals I've set.


Why did you chose to study on this animation course?

I chose to study on this course as I wanted to :

• Improve my illustrative style
• Increase the speed in which I draw
• Bring my stories and characters to life
• Create a stop motion animation with my own model characters
• Be a successful animator/illustrator

What do you want to learn during your time on the programme?

• To learn the main processes and techniques used with in animation
• To learn to create my characters in model form and bring them to life
• Create an outstanding quality of work via animation or storyboard animatic
• Learn to use mixed media with in my work
• Absorb a better understanding of the human anatomy and use this knowledge in my own work

What skills do you think are your strengths?

• My perfectionism, it constantly feels like a double edged sword but it pushes my limit into making a piece of work from ok, to good quality
• My ability to learn something new and incorporate my own knowledge into making something good
• To be able to adapt my work to fit the brief set
• To work with other people, merging everyones ideas to create something amazing
• To think outside the box and twist my work into different themes alongside the one set
  

What things do you want to improve?

• My illustrative skills - mainly anatomy and finding my illustrative style, at the moment I'm slightly stuck in a simple style which I want to move from and make more detailed in expression and anatomy.
• My animation skills 
• My idea set - although I feel that I can think outside the box, I also feel I need to learn more about the animation world and contextual backgrounds to influence my ideas. 
• My working ethos - Although I constantly work and finish tasks set before the deadline, I always end up finding work that needs to be done right before the deadline. I know how to improve on this through... it's just actually doing it, (create more to do lists, actually write in my diary, print off briefs etc.)
• I want to improve on the way I create my illustrations through adding more context and mixed media to my work. I started to create work like this in the last few months of college and really want to improve on this.

What ways will you evaluate your progress?

• Evaluate through the form of feedback
• Critically looking at my own work, and writing bullet points on what I know I need to make better and improve
• Through an end of module evaluation
• Writing initial ideas and comparing with the near finished product
• Comparing my work to that I have done before, Have I improved and made my work to a good quality?