Self Introduction

 Hi, I'm Sarah Jacobek, I'm 19 years old and I am doing my best.

  I've always held an interest in animated forms of media, cartoons, and comics. Take one look around my room and that becomes obnoxiously obvious. This media has always been a safe escape for me and something that brought me joy, comfort, and genuine excitement even as I got older. As the years passed this interest developed into me creating my own stories and fan content. I mention this because through this development I started looking into animation as an art form more and began to make things like animatics. I love watching breakdowns of animated shows like Gravity Falls or Promare and seeing how the artists brought the characters to life as well as just how much work went into making the frames. 

  Now, because I have the attention span of a gnat I've never made a full-blown animation before. I have made short animatics, the longest being around 5 minutes, of both original and fan content for media I enjoyed. I love making the characters come to life and see the things from my imagination play out on screen. I vividly remember my reasoning behind my first ever animatic being pure spite because I hated how my favorite character was treated and portrayed in a show. After seeing that no one was giving them the respect they deserved my gremlin 14-year-old self decided she knew best and took matters into her own hands. It was absolutely awful, drawn on cheap paper with horrible photography, but it existed and that's all that mattered to me. 

  As I've grown I've moved to making animatics digitally but I really want to learn more about animation. I want to improve even more, learn the ins and outs that never occurred to me, and take something rough and rudimentary to what'll hopefully be the next level. From the class computer animation I anticipate learning how to use different animation programs, tips and tricks to make things simpler as well as run smoother, new techniques, and the fundamentals of animation as a practice. By taking this course I'm essentially forcing myself to focus on learning animation and improving my work.