The Bad
It goes without saying the kind of year 2020 has been but despite it all, it has made me realise just how resillient I actually am. When we had our first lockdown here in the UK, I felt very... lost. My mind went down a lot of unhelpful stressful roads and like many others I felt very low. The dogged, determined attitude I'm known for did dampen. My primary goal at the time was to land my dream career, I felt as if all hope of achieving an already difficult goal had left, events were being cancelled like the VFX festival, London Siggraph's events, the swimathon I had signed up for. The most wild of all it became illegal to see my friends and family?!?!?!!!
It was too much at the time. After processing it all, I was able to slowly, pick myself up again and make the new life covid has forced us into living work for me. I got into wellness and made more time for taking care of my mental health by journalling, yoga, watching films, playing games - more of the homeplace things I denied myself because I prioritised work. Being in isolation made me realise I was all work no play, (even though I love my work).
The Getting Better
My birthday is near enough smack bang in the middle of the year, that's when 2020 took a turning point. I rejoined my self defence school that I had left to go to uni and was promoted to instructor - I have even been offered the opportunity to open up my own school! (Once the covid problem is eliminated and I've had more instructor training perhaps I will).
I've learned Procreate and Nomad Sculpt for iPad in addition to teaching myself how to use substance designer and painter and retextured my Scuba Helmet model from 2016 - I was so proud of what I had managed to teach myself! Come October, I took part in the Art Heroes halloween zbrush challenge where I sculpted a character of my own design. In, november I over came my intimidation of coding and learned HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery to make an app using glitch. In the gaps leading up to Christmas I made an abundance of 3D printed Christmas gifts.
Also on another good note, in Decmeber, my graduate film A Time Apart was a semi-finalist in the Dumbo Film Festival's bi-monthly film festival in New York! This is what my film's thumbnail is looking like now:
The Future
2021 I hope will be a good year. I've been very weary not too make too many plans but this year one thing is certain, health comes first. But here are some things I do intend to achieve.
- I will be rebranding this year! Blog, socials - everything! This will include a 3D self portrait which I have teamed up with a friend for the design, (I do not enjoy drawing myself).
- I will be learning even more software, Unreal Engine, Unity, Blender, Gaea and more thoroughly ZBrush.
- I will also be working on my design skills and by the end of the year open a weekend hobby shop selling my 3D prints.
- More blogging!
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