Friday, October 29, 2010

The Introduction

Well alrighty.

I'm not sure exactly how to begin my explanation of why I created this blog, so I guess I'll just cut to the chase.  I am a sophomore year student at Indiana University in Bloomington aspiring to become an animator.  Now I'm sure for anyone out there who knows something about animation you must be wondering "But wait, why would anyone go to regular university in order to become an animator?  Shouldn't he/she go to a legit art school?"
My answer to that is yes.  But because life is funny and is rarely ever as easy to figure out as we all would like it to be, it has happened that I am not on what someone could consider to be a traditional art track towards my intended profession.

That is precisely why I created this blog.

I felt that, like many artists it is a good idea to have a place on the internet for me to post some of my work (until I am computer savvy enough to build an actual website), but I also wanted a place to occasionally voice my questions or opinions on what it is like for me as I take my own approach towards this usually rigid learning process (since I am literally building my own curriculum).

This will be a place for me to think about the advantages and disadvantages I am faced with, and also perhaps just a dumping ground for thoughts and ideas I have related to art and animation in general.  Because they are my greatest passions there are sure to be a lot of them.
I doubt that a lot of my future posts will be quite this wordy, and hopefully a lot more will include some examples or pictures of personal work.  So hey, at least there's that to look forward to.

There's still so much work to be done, both on this blog (it looks so boring!) and on my own learning and improvement, but that is the kind of work I am more than willing to take on.

I guess all that's left to do now is see what happens :)