This past weekend we had a guest speaker named Jimmy Gownley, who is an accomplished comic book creator along with having experience in graphic design and motion graphics. He gave a very motivational speech to us on Saturday. He told us a lot of things that I've already heard from other speakers who share the same kind of 'luck' so to speak. Some of it is luck, others are having strong networking connections, while other times it's just constant perseverence and applying for anything to everything you can find that is in your field. It was very inspirational, and it kind of made me a little bit refreshed and eye opening to the fact that I can do this. There are things I may not be perfectly good at, but I can still create something that no one else has that can be highly successful. It all depends on who to contact, who to keep in touch with, and just again- networking. I feel like I need to start working toward a portfolio. I have things in general, I have a variety of things mixing between animations, graphics, design, and so on. I guess diversity is okay, but I am uncertain if I really should have much diversity in my portfolio- if it's not top quality compared to what my peers both designers and non designers see versus the big guys.
I'm thinking about next semester to have a critique of my work- because I had had one last semester but it wasn't very eye opening at all and not too much advice was given to me in terms of what I had and what I could do to utilize it well. Half of that though may be because I signed up for the wrong person.
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