So at the moment I’ve been having real look into my enjoyment of the course, and while I have loved my time at CSM I would mostly attribute this to my course-mates, the building and London. Unfortunately the worst part of being here has actually been the animating. If I’m being totally honest with myself it only took me a month to realise I definitely don’t want to be an animator. But I don’t think my time here has been wasted, I now know what I do want to do. The work experience module has helped me with the inner turmoil I’ve been having about the course, I want to be in animation pre-production.
An example of the kind of work I’d like to be doing is Dreamworks’ Summer Animation Production Internship. At this point I don’t know if I will be returning for the 2nd year, I’m deliberating at the moment. The guest lecturers and non-animating sessions are really useful and interesting to me but the actual animating makes it hard for me to believe I could even pass the second year. I don’t have the passion for it that would push me to improve like my course-mates. I wanted to write down my thoughts as I go back and forth, maybe this will help me decide.