Friday 3 May 2013

This is (probably) my last blog entry, i may decide to keep the blog going afterwards or i can just make a new one. I writing this to evaluate the last 2 years of the FDAnimation course, to share what i have learnt and my likes and dislikes about the whole experience.

Firstly i am more confident of an area of animation i may want to get into, when i first can to this course i thought i wanted to be animator of traditional animation but i have learnt that the animation industry is broke up into several separate area's and this is when i thought about what i wanted to do the most and what i liked doing. but i would like to do other things as well as animation as a hobby or maybe side projects such as illustrations or even making short movies with VFX involved.

Secondly i have learnt a great deal of new skills and been introduced to new software as well as improving old ones. Some of the software that i have learnt and enjoyed using includes C4d, this 3D software has been interesting to use but after many attempts it shows that this would be one of my weaknesses, although if i had more practice i am sure i could become acquaint with it and get better at it. other software that i improved and learnt new areas that are even more amazing than what i knew before and these are the illustrator, flash and my most skilled software Photoshop.

A side note to know for this project is that it can take a lot of time out of your social life and it is even harder when you have to work as well and it almost leaves you no time to work. Don't get me wrong you can still have time to go out and do other things but you have less than you normally would and sometimes have to arrange around your work or even projects that you may have to improve the experience. All that aside as you progress through the years you learn some tricks of the trade as its know and not everything becomes such a task.

These 2 years have made me more industry ready and more professional, with business cards and everything, it has been great these last few years and i will miss the people i have come to know, but i am sure some may stay in contact or even update there blogs to see whats going on. it has been a great 2 years and who knows what i am going to do next.