Visual Response// SWOT Analysis Illustration

Personal SWOT Analysis

'SWOT' stands for Strengths - Weaknessess - Opportnities - Threats.
Swot is used as a business tool for Art schools as a development tool and for career planning. This tool is generally used to help reflect on personal abilities regarding your own career or specialism.

Examples:

Strengths; Personal skills, Interpersonal skills, Technical skills, Artist skills and Time management. Weakness; Technical short comings, Personal issues that affect your work, Communication, Inter-personal such as teams or networks, Self management, Research and Financial constraints. Opportunities; Competitions, Learnings, Experience, Work, Association, Network, Forums, Shows & Festivals, Competitors. Threats; Competitors, Software barriers, Knowledge barriers, Fashion and trends, Change, Unappreciated weakness.

Below is a written copy of the personal SWOT analysis I completed:

Personal - (Strengths) Friendly and opinionated  (Weaknesses) Easily distracted 

Interpersonal - (Strengths) Social media (Weaknesses) Not very confident in public

Technical - (Strengths) Photoshop (Weaknesses) Computer technology

Artistic - (Strengths)  Character design, story boarding  (Weaknesses) Lack of Experimentation  

I also received some feed back from my peers about my SWOT, 

Personal - Friendly and easily approachable. Procrastination and distracted easily. 

Interpersonal- Very good social network presence. Lack of confidence and intimidated easily.

Technical- Good at digital cartoons. Struggle to grasp technology.

Artistic- Very good at character design and quirky style. Style isn't very versatile.  

  

We've been given a brief to relief over the sheet we filled in about our various qualities in a visual format, I've decided to produce some sort of cartoon for this featuring myself.. Similar to this small illustration I found in my sketchbook (below). 

Who Am I NOW?

• Identify 5 things you have learned so far on the programme 
• Using digital editing software like After Effects to assemble frames into an animation.
• What 'fps' stands for (frames per second) and how it effects the smoothness of the animation.
• Storyboarding, regarding how to effectively use the composition of a camera shot to portray a certain theme/emotion.
• The animation process, from rough draft to concept to production and finally completion. I've learnt how to manage my time within a project and which segments need more attention then others. 
• Life drawing and how important it is to maintain a precise within drawing constantly as a animator. I've noticed an improvement in my work since the beginning of first year, which I'm very pleased with because of maintaining a daily sketchbook.

•  Identify 5 skills that you think are your strengths
• Use of colour, I'm very interested in colour theory and feel like I understand the basics
• Ink/pen illustrations
• Idea generation 
• Anatomical drawings
• Character design

• Identify 5 things that you want to improve
• Presentation skills/Public speaking
• Maya 3D animation
• My understanding of anatomical movement
• Script writing skills
• I want to begin to use a wider range of materials more confidently in my work

• Identify 5 practitioners that demonstrate your interest in animation
• Rebecca Sugar, Creator, Writer and storyboard artist on Steven universe
• Natasha Allegri, Creator and Storyboard artist on Bee and Puppycat
• Chris sanders, Storyboard artist and pinup artist
• Joe Ranft, Character designer and storyboard artist
• Sun creature studios, France

• Identify 5 Websites/online resources that demonstrate your areas of interest within the creative industries
• Tumblr
• Cartoonbrew
• Instergram
• Twitter
• Loopdeloop