#progressreel

So this year I started at Animation Mentor! It’s been an awesome experience so far! This is my progress reel from Class 1.

This is my progress reel for Animation Mentor for the second time I attempted the third term. I failed the term again. This has made me rethink my goals. To be honest I always wanted to be a hand drawn animator (like Eric Goldberg) becuase I love to see my drawings move. However that was taken away, through no fault of my own. For a while I decided to split my focus down a character design path and a computer animation path. Unfortunately, it has come to a point where not only that split in focus has become detrimental to maintain, but the skills to do one are proving to be directly contradictory to the other. I thought for a while that I should focus on computer animation and finish animation mentor, but it is becoming too difficult to ignore my natural drawing inclinations. It has also come to the point when I have to wonder do I even like using the computer. So I am going to pump the brakes and reassess. I would like to thank my mentors Elliott Robert, Mike Gassaway and David Tart for their guidance and critique and the helpful staff at Animation Mentor. I'm sorry I couldn't be better. And to my fellow students, I wish you best of luck.