Doing to improve.

I’ve been working as a games animator at TT Fusion for over 6 months now. I can safely say it’s been a comfortably excellent opportunity for me to break into both the games industry and the world of animation. I’ve already learned so much invaluable experience from my talented animation department, and it just keeps on coming! Being part of such a large development team, I’ve been experiencing the importance of communication, leadership and positive relationships between colleagues.

We have a performance review coming up which has led me to writing this post. I’ve been reflecting on the specific things I have been doing and what I want to be doing now and in the future. Like any other animator, I wish to further improve my understanding and work-flow to a much more professional degree - and continue to ‘push my limits’ so to speak. Animating full-time has made me a bit lazier than usual, and as you can probably tell I haven’t done any animation outside of work in a long while. This has led me to an idea to set myself some excersies to get me going.

I discovered a 11 Second Club post here with a list of short character excersies. The plan is to work through these over the next few months - giving myself 1 to 2 weeks per anim. Update: This hasn't happened.

I’ll be posting a bit more text-rich things on this blog too, so keep an eye out!