This week I started my first ever School of Motion course with Animation Bootcamp. I’ve wanted to enroll in one of SOM’s courses for as long as I can remember, but could never find the time. It finally hit me that there will never be the perfect time though, so I took a leap of faith, and am officially an SOM student for the Summer of 2021. I’m equal parts ecstatic and nervous, but overall I’m just really pumped to be improving some animation skills.

As I started my Orientation week this week I also decided to check out their free course called Level Up, and the combination of the two (AB + LU) has been awesome so far. I know I’m only in my orientation week with Animation Bootcamp, but simply interacting with my classmates, providing each other with feedback on our evaluation assignments and getting to know our TAs over the past few days has been great. I’m so excited to learn from my peers and get to know each other better as the course progresses.

But back to Level Up. Ryan Summers, the instructor for the course, talks about how important it is to not only practice technical animation skills, but other skills like sketching and writing in order to “level up” in your career. I’ll be honest, I haven’t sketched much over the past several years, but I have been trying to keep up with this blog in an effort to improve my writing. So I’ve decided that I’m going to do a weekly recap every Friday during Animation Bootcamp for the next twelve (well, now technically eleven) weeks. It’s an extremely ambitious goal, but I like shooting for the stars.

As for this week’s recap, there’s not much to report other than that I’ve completed my first evaluation assignment, received some feedback from my TA and been advised that things are going to “pick up quick.” Guess that’s a hint that it’s time to go log off for the week and go enjoy some time away from my computer because I have a funny feeling I’ll be at the computer A LOT next week ;)

Happy weekend everybody!