Short Term
My short term goal is to finnish of my A Level courses at Long Road Sixth Form college and studying animation at university.
Medium Term
My medium term goal is to study animation at university, gaining experience and skills on how to make stop motion puppets and how to build upon and improve my stop motion skills. I also hope to gain some experience and skills into different types of animation like 3D and 2D animation whilst at university.
Long Term
My long term goal is to finish my animation course at university and apply as animator at Aardman Animations. Whilst at Aardman I hope to be a big part of animating many of their films and shows. Later down the line in my career I hope to be a big part of Aardman and maybe even create my own animation studio.
Plan
My overall plan is too finish my courses in A Level Photography and Media Diploma course at Long Road Sixth Form College. After this I hope to be going to be studying Stop Motion Animation and Puppet Making at Staffordshire University and if I don't get in to Stafford I will do Animation at Southampton Solent University Instead.
Contingency Plan
Incase I don't go to university I will look around for animation jobs, apprenticeships and internships whilst still progressing my animation skills and working on films at home.
Improvements
Things that I need and would like to improve on before and whilst I am at University. One of these is my skills with photoshop and after effects, I have a bit of experience and rough guide with the programs but not a lot. I would really like to improve my skills on the programs and learn how to do more professional and industry effects and edits with them. I have quite a bit of experience and skill with my animating but I feel I still really need to improve. I feel the way I light the sets and the figures is alright but isn't very professional looking. I also feel i need to improve the way I animate the figures I feel they need to be more fluent in the way the move and interact with each other. Going to University can help me aprove upon these skills, but if I dont go to University I can improve these skills by teaching my self through online tutorials or get work experience/job at a animation studio.
Resources
There are a few resources that I still need to be able to do my work professionally at University or at Home. The main thing I need is a professional animation software like Dragon Frame, this will allow me to get use software that the professionals use and hopefully it will improve the way I animate. Another thing that can improve my animations is getting some high level studio lights for my sets, with these they should improve the way I light my animations and improve the way they look. The final thing that I think will make my animations better is investing in some puppet armatures and making my own puppets like Paranorman and Wallace and Gromit, I would also need to invest in some very expensive equipment to make the Paranorman puppets so as a starting block it would be better to make some clay animation puppets like Wallace and Gromit first.
