Skills I have learned and now possess

Have learned how to develop many skills over the past few months has developed quick since the first years, From learning the basics of key-framing I have gone on to understand the inbetweens for key-framing movement. I have developed skill in hand drawn frame by frame drawing and am now learning how to model in Maya, I am still learning maya but I feel that personally I have fully developed in my but will develop further as I progress on in the future. For the time being I only understand how to model in Maya but I am watching animating tutorials to develop the skills to move my created characters. I would already say I am a great Illustrator, I just need the animation skills to make my art feel complete.

I have also learnt that anyone can animate and that there are many different ways you can animate, 3D, Traditional, Stop motion and many more forms. I have experimented with the different forms and have found out my self that I am feel stronger in animating with 2D but I have developed a passion for animating in 3D and now want to learn how to animate in this form professionally because I feel that the package Maya is complicated but simple to understand in its presentation.

I have developed in planning my ideas and selecting the right one, I have developed this skill through the working briefs provided for me. They have been challenging an have pushed me to think more about creating original and unique animations that work for my target audiences.

3D animation

Stopmotion animation

Traditional animation

I have learnt to use many different process for animation over the years while being at University and I have found that I like using both digital and traditional combined together because I like to draw by hand I feel that doing it traditionally I can draw forms a lot more cleaner and am better with character design. Finding out what I am am good at has helped me move forward in terms of progression because I have identified what style i want to work work with in the future.