Do you have what it takes to be a professional animator?
QUIZ
Do you dream about being a professional animator? Do you get excited after watching the latest visual effects or feature animated movies and wish that you were on the animation team?
Below is a fun little assessment quiz to see if you have what it takes to be a career animator. Don't think too hard about the answers though. Choose the answer that you best identify with. Have fun!
ASSESSMENT:
How did you do? Did you predominantly answer (c) for most of the questions? Then CONGRATULATIONS, you have what it takes to be a professional animator!
Although this quiz is fun and mostly tongue-in-cheek, we do want to highlight a few of the answers that we feel are essential to being a successful and great professional animator.
Question 1: When confronted with a challenging situation, do you: Answer 1: c) Persevere and do your best to figure out how to resolve the situation
When on the road to becoming a professional animator and even when you feel that "you have arrived," challenges are going to crop up. Whether the challenge is a difficult animation assignment that you've been given or if it's the feeling of being overwhelmed because you feel you have no time, it's important for you to not give up, but rather to keep pushing forward, continue to do the best you can, figure out what you need to do to improve and then persevere in mastering your skills as an animator.
Question 5. How do you feel about working hard? Answer 5. c) Working hard is important to being great at what you do
Becoming a professional animator is not always easy. It takes dedication and hard work. The goal of becoming an animator can be rewarding and fun, however, being the best, as in most things, takes time and some elbow grease.
Question 7. How do you react when you receive constructive criticism? Answer 7. c) Really take in what was said to you and try to incorporate as much as you can to improve yourself and/or your work
Being able to receive criticism is essential as a professional animator. Peer feedback as well as feedback from a director or a mentor is how you learn to improve your skills and your animation. It's important to learn to really hear what someone is saying to you and then translate the key points into your animation.
And although it does take work, perseverance, and dedication to become a successful animator, remember to also have fun through the process. Happy animating!
Do you dream about being a professional animator? Do you get excited after watching the latest visual effects or feature animated movies and wish that you were on the animation team?
Below is a fun little assessment quiz to see if you have what it takes to be a career animator. Don't think too hard about the answers though. Choose the answer that you best identify with. Have fun!
- When confronted with a challenging situation, do you:
- Give up
- Cry
- Persevere and do your best to figure out how to resolve the situation
- After watching "The Incredibles" or "Lord of the Rings," did you:
- Wake up from a deep sleep and wipe the drool off of your face
- Lean over to your friend and ask, "Want to get dinner?"
- Jump out of your chair from excitement, rant about how great the movie was, immediately buy another ticket to watch the movie again, and wish that the DVD was out so you could watch the movie again and again and again
- Which movie below do you think is a classic that everyone should have watched?
- Steel Magnolias
- Pretty Woman
- Star Wars
- What would you rather be doing?
- Watching football
- Knitting
- Drawing, making mini-movies, acting, or watching movies
- How do you feel about working hard?
- Work hard? Uhmmm, no.
- I'll do it if I have to
- Working hard is important to being great at what you do
- If someone gave you an assignment to animate a bouncing ball, would you:
- Laugh at them and say to give you something more challenging
- Wait until the night before it was due and then try to throw something together
- Immediately run out and view as much reference on bouncing balls as possible and try to recreate what you saw
- How do you react when you receive constructive criticism?
- Want to punch the person in the nose who gave it to you
- Cry
- Really take in what was said to you and try to incorporate as much as you can to improve yourself and/or your work
- When you see a flock of birds flying in the air, do you:
- Hope they don't poop on you
- Get hungry
- Watch them intently and are fascinated by the way they move
- When confronted with a challenge and you don't know what to do, do you:
- Keep the issue to yourself and hope it will go away
- Cry
- Ask for help and for feedback in order to improve yourself, your work, or your situation
- What motto do you most identify with?
- Step on everyone on the way to the top
- When the going gets tough, quit
- I'll continue to learn from my mistakes and successes, as well as the mistakes and successes of others, to continue to improve and grow
ASSESSMENT:
How did you do? Did you predominantly answer (c) for most of the questions? Then CONGRATULATIONS, you have what it takes to be a professional animator!
Although this quiz is fun and mostly tongue-in-cheek, we do want to highlight a few of the answers that we feel are essential to being a successful and great professional animator.
Question 1: When confronted with a challenging situation, do you: Answer 1: c) Persevere and do your best to figure out how to resolve the situation
When on the road to becoming a professional animator and even when you feel that "you have arrived," challenges are going to crop up. Whether the challenge is a difficult animation assignment that you've been given or if it's the feeling of being overwhelmed because you feel you have no time, it's important for you to not give up, but rather to keep pushing forward, continue to do the best you can, figure out what you need to do to improve and then persevere in mastering your skills as an animator.
Question 5. How do you feel about working hard? Answer 5. c) Working hard is important to being great at what you do
Becoming a professional animator is not always easy. It takes dedication and hard work. The goal of becoming an animator can be rewarding and fun, however, being the best, as in most things, takes time and some elbow grease.
Question 7. How do you react when you receive constructive criticism? Answer 7. c) Really take in what was said to you and try to incorporate as much as you can to improve yourself and/or your work
Being able to receive criticism is essential as a professional animator. Peer feedback as well as feedback from a director or a mentor is how you learn to improve your skills and your animation. It's important to learn to really hear what someone is saying to you and then translate the key points into your animation.
And although it does take work, perseverance, and dedication to become a successful animator, remember to also have fun through the process. Happy animating!