Skills

So. Skills. What do I possess? Where would I like to be?

Since I started branching out into the creative side, I've known where I've wanted to work from a very young age. As a heavy consumer of gaming and film, and an in-depth knowledge about them, I knew there and then my ideal job would have been (now known as) Square-Enix. A games developing company situated in Japan. Why here? I've played almost every single one of their titles to date, as well as plenty of other games. Not only am I hugely interested in the approach they take to their games, but the films as well, my main influence to the animation career, as their animated sequences and films are splendid to look at and enjoy.

Unfortunately, since the merge of the two companies (Square soft and Enix) their games haven't really been that great lately. As a result, this isn't my dream work placement anymore, but still one of the top few. Aside from that, I'd have to be EXTREMELY good in what I'm doing, be completely fluent in Japanese, and be, Japanese; they are slightly xenophobic.

As a direct result of this, looking around allowed me to find other companies, situated in London, where I could achieve pretty much what I wanted to anyway with Square Enix; that place is Framestore.

Next up, Double Negative, also situated in London, Soho. These guys are probably a tied top position in my choice list with Framestore. Why? I was purely fascinated by the approach the founders took to develop the company, as they came to the university for industry day.

Without trying to sound big-headed, I'm an all rounder. And not an all rounder that's okay in them, but not strong in any. I can honestly say that I'm strong in so many aspects. All of them aren't directly related to animation, but certainly would help in whatever I choose to do in life. I have a huge amount knowledge of ICT (computing, telephony, networking) anatomy, drawing skills (razarei.deviantart.com) music (composition, playing instruments) physics (math, engineering) the list is endless. All of which makes life so much more difficult for me because all of which I'm equally great at and each I wish to pursue. Rambling aside, my top five skills are:

Grasps knowledge really quickly

Very keen learner

Great with people, agony uncle :P

Anything needed, I will find a solution.

Loyal.

All of which I wish to push further. Throughout my life since probably GCSE's, I've been succeeding with minimal to little effort, or burst-rushes of work during the last couple of days prior to a submission. At the time, for something like that to happen seemed okay to me. It's not until I actually started (or during the) the first year that I actually wanted to succeed, beyond my expectations, with full effort. But low and behold, even though I'm trying, it still ends up the same. The same people dragging me down, using my kindness as an advantage to hold me back, friends, family, and of course this leads me to acting / feeling certain ways. I guess, it's times like this I wish I was just alone and had no one to bother me / make me worry, so I could just focus on my work, and succeed.

What I HAVE learnt though, is how important time management, planning, having a reliable group of people to work with, and communication is.

Rambling aside, gotta continue! Gotta push forward!