Today was the final hand in for university and boy does it feel good to have got it all done in time!! The final task left to do is to post a final evaluation blog post...
So here it is
When I first came into this course I had no previous experience with the adobe creative programmes, I had no concept of the process of animation production or an understanding of the industry. But with time I have gradually built up a cluster of knowledge, experience and confidence in a field that I enjoy that has provided me with the first few steps towards doing something I enjoy this much for a living.
Some of my work has been terrible and I would say some of it is downright embarrassing - however, with my gift of amazing hindsight, each has taught me something that I either did or should have done to better my work so I don't regret them. Each mistake has been a well learned lesson.
I'm pretty proud of SOME of the work and hope that in the future I manage to add to that pile. I have said that I need to work toward a loose style of some form that may make my work look a bit more consistent.
I think this wouldn't be a very good final post if I were to neglect mentioning Pictoplasma 2012. When we met the stars of Picto and listened to their talks it was a massive boost of not only inspiration and excitement but confidence - in the fact that they too are human and that it is possible even for us merely mortal, Newcastle college students to work hard and do well in this creative industry.
I would say the most useful bit of knowledge after this was probably how to work dragon stop motion. That little piece of software is something you can use for many different things and the use of it has sparked off so many ambitions. I think the animation I enjoyed the most was using dragon to animate the silhouette tree cut outs. I found it easy to understand the concept and I enjoyed sitting beside the lightbox moving cut outs and for it to have created a fairly smooth movement on screen. I definitely intend to use this method in the future.
What I found the most difficult was either rigging a footroll or learning to create and stick to timeplans, it could be the latter. For someone who works on getting a to do list entirely crossed off rather than divvying the tasks up onto days and sticking to it - doing a timeplan and taking it seriously worried me because of how much could go wrong and make tasks last longer than what time was given to spend on them. However I feel I can say I follow timeplans pretty well now.
To finish I would like to say I have enjoyed my two years on this course and would thank everyone who helped me throughout including teachers, peers, family and even strangers :D as someone who was unsure about what I wanted to do in life, this course has helped point me in a direction where I know I'll be happy with whatever it is I end up doing. I have gained invaluable knowledge and experience that I can build upon and use. And one day if I become rich, successful and famous - I bet I'll find this post and cringe with every word with how cheesy it sounds.
But this is Georgie Goldsmith finishing her university course and posting as an FdA Animation and Illustration student for the last time (unless I remember all the important things I should have said in this post and post even more)...
Cheers
So here it is
When I first came into this course I had no previous experience with the adobe creative programmes, I had no concept of the process of animation production or an understanding of the industry. But with time I have gradually built up a cluster of knowledge, experience and confidence in a field that I enjoy that has provided me with the first few steps towards doing something I enjoy this much for a living.
Some of my work has been terrible and I would say some of it is downright embarrassing - however, with my gift of amazing hindsight, each has taught me something that I either did or should have done to better my work so I don't regret them. Each mistake has been a well learned lesson.
I'm pretty proud of SOME of the work and hope that in the future I manage to add to that pile. I have said that I need to work toward a loose style of some form that may make my work look a bit more consistent.
I think this wouldn't be a very good final post if I were to neglect mentioning Pictoplasma 2012. When we met the stars of Picto and listened to their talks it was a massive boost of not only inspiration and excitement but confidence - in the fact that they too are human and that it is possible even for us merely mortal, Newcastle college students to work hard and do well in this creative industry.
I would say the most useful bit of knowledge after this was probably how to work dragon stop motion. That little piece of software is something you can use for many different things and the use of it has sparked off so many ambitions. I think the animation I enjoyed the most was using dragon to animate the silhouette tree cut outs. I found it easy to understand the concept and I enjoyed sitting beside the lightbox moving cut outs and for it to have created a fairly smooth movement on screen. I definitely intend to use this method in the future.
What I found the most difficult was either rigging a footroll or learning to create and stick to timeplans, it could be the latter. For someone who works on getting a to do list entirely crossed off rather than divvying the tasks up onto days and sticking to it - doing a timeplan and taking it seriously worried me because of how much could go wrong and make tasks last longer than what time was given to spend on them. However I feel I can say I follow timeplans pretty well now.
To finish I would like to say I have enjoyed my two years on this course and would thank everyone who helped me throughout including teachers, peers, family and even strangers :D as someone who was unsure about what I wanted to do in life, this course has helped point me in a direction where I know I'll be happy with whatever it is I end up doing. I have gained invaluable knowledge and experience that I can build upon and use. And one day if I become rich, successful and famous - I bet I'll find this post and cringe with every word with how cheesy it sounds.
But this is Georgie Goldsmith finishing her university course and posting as an FdA Animation and Illustration student for the last time (unless I remember all the important things I should have said in this post and post even more)...
Cheers
