I have to say, deciding to learn animation is still the best decision that I have made, even if the animation career has not started yet. And if I am honest if I didn’t stumble upon MACA webpage and randomly started reading through the course details, maybe I would still be sceptical about pursuing animation.
When it comes to my career pathway after I graduate, I can think of three directions: first is as an animator, second is to be in the art department, and the third is in production design area. What I know is I want to be in this industry, and I can only hope that I will enjoy it, because sometimes professional life and the industry conditions could alter your view about something that you are initially passionate about, but I am optimistic!
One of the things that I will try to do after graduation is to do an internship. I feel like an intern role would suit me better at the beginning because I know nothing about the real working world of the animation industry. Also I feel like as an intern you will be more comfortable asking many questions and asking people to teach you anything. Or maybe the environment of the Industry is different than what I am familiar with? I guess I will have to find out.
As for now, I have only applied to one internship, which I did last week, so there won’t be any update until later on I assume. To be honest, there are many opportunities that I missed. My problem was the lack of decent quality portfolio for the showreel, because my exercises from the first year were super rough, so I had to wait until I was done with some cleaned-up scenes so I could have three different projects in my showreel.
Hopefully, I can add more after this!
(I actually have the showreel but I can’t seem to upload it so maybe next time!)