502 #4 - Marketing

 

PERSONAL:

My personal strengths I'd say were my creativity and imagination, something I like to brand 'smortness' as in not academically smart but full of general trivia that can be weirdly helpful in life, and my honesty, which I've been told is good for shopping trips as I won't lie if clothing doesn't suit my companion.

My personal weaknesses are mostly my impulsiveness, which can be dangerous sometimes (like stepping out onto the road instead of waiting), my time management, which leads to a lot of last minute rushing, my motivation, which can be present for ages then suddenly disappear for weeks, and my lack of concentration which makes lectures very difficult to get through.

The weakness are influenced by my only real personal threat, my ADHD, so I didn't see what kind of personal opportunities I had other than possible a psychiatrist with a relevant prescription.

INTERPERSONAL:

My interpersonal strengths I'd say were my generally flexible and relaxed attitude to life, which ends up with me becoming the Therapist Friend in most friendships.

My weaknesses are my struggles with understanding social rules and etiquette, which I find increasingly confusing and frustrating, my difficulty in talking to people outside of a work setting, which makes making non-work friends tricky, and my obsession with dinosaurs which can end up dominating a conversation and takes personal restraint to stop talking about.

My opportunities for making friendships are both uni and a series of animation projects I'm involved in online.

The threats I'd say were mostly myself and significant social change, like going from high school to college, college to uni, and inevitably, uni to job, and job to job.

TECHNICAL:

My technical strengths is my software adaptability, as I know the fundamental of most programs and can quickly learn within a day or so from online tutorials.

My weaknesses are most definitely my struggle with 3D rigging and tech art, which I find endlessly confusing.

My opportunities are my access to multiple programs I get with uni for free, like the Adobe suite, Maya, and the ones I get cheaper like TVPaint and Toon Boom, I also have some networking opportunities with visiting professionals.

I wouldn't say there are any 'threats' outside of the weaknesses.

ARTISTIC:

My strengths are definitely my understanding of animal anatomy that I can adapt for designing monsters or realistically proportioned mythical creatures, and my adaptability to other people's styles in animation.

My weaknesses are realism, which I keep meaning to take courses on but never seem to actually do, landscape artwork/backgrounds, which I do some single tutorials on specific scenes that I can reproduce later on, and my knowledge on human anatomy/perspective, which makes designing human characters difficult.

My opportunities are the 11 Second Club for short animation practices, the D&AD competition, which could help with money, and an online project to create fan episodes of The Owl House called Animation Coven that gives me ways to practice any aspect of production I want (so far I've done backgrounds and storyboards for the project).

The only threat is competitors for the competitions, but I use them for practice more anyway.