Who am i now?

• Identify 5 things you have learned so far on the programme

-How to use professional digital tools such as maya, after effects, flash, etc

-How to plan to the extent of my abilities ie gaging how reasonable or how ambitious my plans are

-The professional animation process
-Techniques for convincing animated movement
-How to effectively and respectfully work with, and around other Animators

• Identify 5 things that you want to know more about

-ways to start in the industry (Internships ect) and how to get hired

-Relation Between Videogame animation and "traditional" animation

-How to effectively present yourself online
-What makes "good" concept art
-The ins and outs of Maya/Digital 3D modeling/texturing/animating

• Identify 5 skills that you think are your strengths

-Research and development

-My flexibility with working with different forms of animation

-My theoretical understanding and knowledge of animation techniques and practices 

-My ability to quickly pick up digital tools for producing animation

-My passion for art philosophy, theory, and history

• Identify 5 things that you want to improve.

-Professional Confidence (confidence in my work)

-Digital Drawing Skills

-Organisation skills and working effectively to deadlines

-Life Drawing
-Perspective Drawing

• Identify 5 practitioners that demonstrate your interest in Animation

-Edmund Mcmillen; Makes simple but addictive video games that are all very successful. Earns a living by making games that are entirely his idea.

- Chris Sasaki; Gets paid to draw for a brief, with my love for pre production i feel like this would be a fun job, though i would like to build up my confidence/skill drawing before reach a level to take a job like this. 
-Camilo Vanegas; Both this person and the next work at Supergiant Games. A very successful animator who has worked for a company that has only produced successful games. Focusing on character animation he has produced some brilliant independent animated skits with fantastic facial expressions and movement.
-Jen Zee; Another person who works at Supergiant games who creates quite painterly backgrounds, characters and environments. I admire her style as well as the company she works for.
- Makoto Shinkai; His focus on beautiful backgrounds and focus on detail and colour are what takes his animations above the average japanese anime.

• Identify 5 websites/online resources that demonstrate your areas of interest within the creative industries.

-http://store.steampowered.com/ ; This is the website that i get purchase most of the games I research, with forums for video game discussion

-http://www.thisiscolossal.com/ ; A website that features cool new artists and pieces in the media that i often use for inspiration.

-https://www.tumblr.com/ ; Though tumblr is frowned upon as not a very professional website, many of the animators/artists mentioned above have professional blogs on tumblr.

-http://myanimelist.net/ ; Perhaps the least professional of the list here, however this keeps me informed of the japanese animation scene and helps me to keep track of the anime i have or haven't seen (Though this is the anime equivilent of IMDB)

-https://vimeo.com/ ; The professional youtube

I am not particularly proud of my 5 websites, i should research more sites to keep an eye on.