First I made a SWOT analysis that I thought about myself, this was quite easy for me to pick out my strengths and weaknesses, however I found it hard to think of threats.
Personal:
For my personal SWOT section my strengths would be that I am determined and optimistic about situations, however I can be impatient and get easily sidetracked my other things. To target these weaknesses I feel that as long as I always involve myself in things that really interest me it will stop me getting sidetracked or I will force myself to keep focused. To help me with my personal skills and not face the threat of losing motivation I will try to work with people who are patient and possibly they will be able to rub off on me a little more.
Interpersonal:
My interpersonal strengths involve enjoying working as a team, taking role as team leader and being able to take time to listen to others. Listening to other and empathy has always been a strong point of mine, which is why I think I work well as team leader, although my weaknesses would be sometimes I have lots of ideas that I really like and I find it hard to pick just one. I feel to help further my interpersonal skills it will be good to work in animation production groups.
My interpersonal strengths involve enjoying working as a team, taking role as team leader and being able to take time to listen to others. Listening to other and empathy has always been a strong point of mine, which is why I think I work well as team leader, although my weaknesses would be sometimes I have lots of ideas that I really like and I find it hard to pick just one. I feel to help further my interpersonal skills it will be good to work in animation production groups.
Technical:
Technical skills are something that are only gained through the amount of time I have been studying aimation, which is only just over a year. My skills would be that I am a quick learner and I am good at managing projects and time, but I understand that I lack 3D skills and I struggle with walk cycles. The next steps to help with this would be to simply practice more with walk cycles, refer back to my animation survival guide and have more of a go at Maya.
Artistic:
My artistic skills involve coming up with characters, playing with colour and background design. My weaknesses within art would be that I'm not very good at life drawing and I find it hard to draw hands and feet, which is quite important in animation. To improve these skills would mean to partake in more life drawing classes and even just sit outside and draw what I see, I think this is something that will come with time.
My artistic skills involve coming up with characters, playing with colour and background design. My weaknesses within art would be that I'm not very good at life drawing and I find it hard to draw hands and feet, which is quite important in animation. To improve these skills would mean to partake in more life drawing classes and even just sit outside and draw what I see, I think this is something that will come with time.
I teamed up with Magnus to find out a objective view on my SWOT analysis, which was quite interesting finding out from an outsiders perspective.
Personal:
Seeing that I got 'open and warm' as my personal skills was quite nice as it reassured me that people think that I am someone who is approachable. A similar weakness to my own SWOT analysis was that I am sometimes impatient, which I know is something I need to work on. The opportunities for me would be that I am open to new things and I think this is also true, as I'm someone who's always up for new opportunities.
Interpersonal:
For interpersonal skills, Magnus put 'inclusive' and 'welcoming', because I put that I was a good team leader this demonstrates that I am able to include and never leave anyone out. As a weakness I got 'too trusting' and that is something I never would have thought of, but thinking back to production teams at college it was something that did happen to me on occasion. I usually left too much responsibility to people who weren't committed to what they were doing and therefore I was let down. To target this weakness would be to still trust people, but possibly don't over trust people with big responsibilities without me being directly involved.
For interpersonal skills, Magnus put 'inclusive' and 'welcoming', because I put that I was a good team leader this demonstrates that I am able to include and never leave anyone out. As a weakness I got 'too trusting' and that is something I never would have thought of, but thinking back to production teams at college it was something that did happen to me on occasion. I usually left too much responsibility to people who weren't committed to what they were doing and therefore I was let down. To target this weakness would be to still trust people, but possibly don't over trust people with big responsibilities without me being directly involved.
Technical:
For weaknesses and strengths, I got 'Stop Motion' and '3D', which I completely agree with, although I wouldn't say I was completely capable with everything in stop motion. I simply need to practice with mediums more which will come with creating lots of diverse animations. As threat Magnus outlined that CG may takeover a lot of the animation industry and this may be a thing, however I don't believe that it will fully dominate the industry. Still, to combat this I will just need to make sure I am confident in lots of areas of the animation industry so that I will be flexible.
Artistic:
'Painting', 'modelling' and 'colour sense' have been a strong point in my artistic skills and I agree as someone from a fine art background this has been what I have practiced the longest. An opportunity that I really liked was to possibly look at miniatures in film, which is something I am actually really interested in!
'Painting', 'modelling' and 'colour sense' have been a strong point in my artistic skills and I agree as someone from a fine art background this has been what I have practiced the longest. An opportunity that I really liked was to possibly look at miniatures in film, which is something I am actually really interested in!
