Humble Beginnings

Welcome to my newest blog. I won't be continuing the old ones as they represent 2008. This blog is intended to track my journey as an artist and animator post-Honours.

Now that I have finished university (save for the graduation ceremony), I have decided that I really need to specialise in something. The degree was great and I learnt heaps, but I feel I'm currently just a generalist. I gained foundation knowledge in a number of disciplines including web, sound and video, and focused myself on 3D - but there just wasn't enough time to master animation. I thought I might be able to by making films - and I made 2 short animated films over the past 2 years; but as a wise friend of mine (Timmy Gaul) reflected: in making 3D films most of your time goes into planning, such that you don't get much time to actually animate. Especially if you're doing it alone - as I did. Fortunately I could source out some of the work for my later film particualarly, and that served to enhance the product.

I think collaboration and filmmaking is great, but on a personal level I'm putting that onto pause. From now on, I'm dominantly focuing on just animation and drawing. The area I chose to specialise is animation, and the career path I have chosen is to become a character animator. And I'm not going to stop until I get there.

The plan for the present is to get a job and work through several animation and drawing books in my own time for a bit of self-improvement. Then, once I have a safe amount of funding behind me - I plan to do the pretigious Animation mentor 1.5 year online course to push myself even more. So then, by say 2011 - I'm hoping to be pretty damn good at animation. At any rate, I'll be a lot better than I am now.