Dream Job and skills

My dream job is

Animator

The skills needed

The main skills required in this job are:

• Drawing - drawing skill are needed for animator because you draw out your character and its a model for you to place onto the computer so you need to be a good drawer to be able to be a good animator.
• Storytelling - storytelling is important because you have to be creative and have imagination to create animations because you can literally create anything and without good storytelling the things you create wont have a story behind them.
• Good sense of timing and composition - because when your working on animating you have frames and scale of the characters you have to have good sense to be able to get them right like timing of when you move your character.
• An understanding of motion, Size, Ratios, and perspectives - this is needed because your characters need to be to scale if you make them big as hell you wont be able to animate them because they wont fit so you have to have a good sense of scale and ratio to be able to get them to the right size.
• Maths - maths is needed because as i said before you need to work out things like scale, ratio's timing and other things that animation has in so you need to be good at maths.
• Physics - physics is needed because you need to know angle to be able top move your character the right way so if the walking down a road you need to know which angle you want the camera at what angle you want the character at.
• Teamwork is needed because in animation it certainly wont just be you animating a story or a screenplay it will be a bunch off you and you need to communicate to be able to produce the right thing for whoever you are working for.
• The ability to work quickly this is needed in animation because sometimes if someone is falling behind you might have the ability to pick up the pace and draw something very fast or animate a character quickly to go help someone else or something.
• Ability to take direction because it is guaranteed that you wont start at the top of the ladder and you have to be able to take orders and get told what you have to do even if you might already know you have to have the patience just to listen to watch your boss is telling you.

My skills match up a little apart form four things that i do need to work on so from that list i think i only need to work on four things these are:

1. An understanding of motion, size, ratios, and perspectives
2. Physics
3. Work quickly
4. Drawing

I could gain these skills by diong the following things. for the first two they are relitively simple all I need to do is work on my maths skills I say that also because the coarse  want to study at Teeside University Needs two A levels and Functional skills level 3 maths is equivelant to 1 A levels so if I work on my maths I can hit two birds with one stone.

For the third one i need to set myself little tasks and goals because it is much easier to do thirty minutes of work than two two hours of work because in that 30 minutes you can get as much as you can possibly do but in that time. whilst tin the time of two hours your mind starts to wonder and you get bored so if I do as much as I can in 30 minutes then take a brake and go back to it I can develop my quickness.

For the last on My drawing skills well I am a bad drawer So i need to work on that by either getting someone to teach me how to draw or teaching myself by spending a lot of time in my room, looking at tutorials getting a heck load of paper and just develop my drawings skills either way is good.

Skills

Transferable skills 

What are transferable skill:

Transferable skills are the skills you have that you can take over to other jobs such as communication you can take that skills to every single job in the world because it is pretty much Guarantied in whatever job you are employed.

• Punctual - in the creative sectors being Punctual is always good because you have to be on time in every job you get otherwise you will be fired it do-sent matter what job you are in.
• Good at computer - the software in media in mostly online so you have to know your way around a computer all the different ones out the so you can send emails create digital graphic and the list goes on it is very important to have computer skills
• Good communication - overall in the creative sectors of media as an example if you are standing up and giving your ideas to someone you have to be confident in your speaking with your body language the way you talk and having a good vocabulary make you look very professional. 
• Listening skills - listening skills are important because you have to be able to listen to instructions and deliver what the client wants.
• Computer based Animation (Flash)- well this is just for me personally but flash skills are probably for amateurs but to have them skills show that you started form the bottom and that you can do the simple stuff.
• Reliable - to be reliable means that your employer feels that he or she is able to trust you with big work and having that confidence gives you a certain job security in a way
• Organisation - this is good because to be organised means you don't have to mess about looking for things if you know were they are so it saves time.
• Working as part of a team - this is always needed because in every job you are bound to work with other people and if you are good in a team then the work will get done good but if your not then  both your jobs are on the line so it is always good to be good in a team.
• Working on my own initiative - sometimes you do have to work on your own and some people prefer that because they can just do there own thing i am one of them people and this skill is sometimes good and sometimes bad.
• Motivation - motivation is always need because if your not motivated in the job you are doing then what is the point of working there, also i find being motivated improves the quality of the work you produce.
• Problem solving - this is good to have because you always need to be on your toes i find because if a problem does come up and you just stand there flabbergasted then your going to get embarrassed but with this skill you can just alright this is what we need to do to overcome this obstacle.  

creative media skills

• Good storyteller - storytelling is always required in the creative industry because it is literally in the the creative and storytelling basically is one of the main skills you have to have to be creative.