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.