Workshop 1

5 things I want to get out of this year:

1. An amazing portfolio that summarises what I'm all about.
2. Professional contacts
3. Improve verbal communication and presentation skills
4. More experience and knowledge of working within the illustration/animation industry
5. Publishing - how to approach? who to contact?

5 words that describes my practice:

1. Narrative
2. Character
3. Animation
4. Digital
5. Colour

5 things I want my work/portfolio to demonstrate:

1. Character design
2. Storytelling
3. Adaptability - ability to work with different medias, and different types of design work.
4. Environments
5. Good eye for colour, composition, layout.

5 Practical skills I want to develop:

1. Traditional print processes
2. Animation
3. Analogue image making (painting)
4. Colour, lighting, character design, backgrounds
5. Digital

5 non-practical skills I want to develop:

1. Confidence
2. Verbal communication skills
3. Networking/contacting professionals
4. Problem solving
5. Collabiration

5 things I want to produce:

1. Books
2. Visual development for animation
3. Animation
4. Things I could potentially sell
5. Prints

What do I want to do?

1. I want to illustrate children's books
2. I want to produce printed products
3. I want to collaborate with animator and writers
4. I want to educate children in a fun way

Why do I want to do it?

1. I want to place myself/my practice within the kids industry
2. I want to start earning money from what I produce
3. I am interested in working within the animation industry
4. I think its important for more fun educational materials in the kids industry

What do you want to get out of it?

1. Increased knowledge and experience 
2. Develop skills in print processes
3. Develop communication and collaboration skills
4. Recognisability

Why will that benefit you?

1. Diversity my portfolio
2. Becoming more professional
3. Hireable