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My Resume

Self Evaluation

This year has started off in such a melancholy fashion. Events in my past concerning the people associated with a medium I've fallen in love with have ruined my perception of what it means to be in KCAI. When I first wanted to come to this school, I was so excited. Finally there would be a group of people who were just like me and were training to become the next group of legendary animators, like Genndy Tartokofsky, Butch Hartmen or Seth MacFarlane. Only to get settled in, and see the total opposite. The work that comes out of this department, especially with the seniors (not all) have been so bad and fully of tired cliches that I've lost hope. The idea in my head says, this is good because I can use my talents to really stand out, but when I see people graduating with absolutely no potential in this field of work, I then question how meaningful my work is. If everyone can pass, what's the point of doing my best and better yet, did I graduate because I'm good and ready, or because I just made something?

This state of mind put me into a huge depression and classes such as this one were no exception to my pessimistic views altering my motivation or interest. So I can't honestly say, I've been happy. Which can make me seem distracted or uninterested. 

I'm getting over this depression, coming to realizations and understanding who I am and why I'm here to begin with. But a subjective point of view, doesn't tell what I think I should receive or how I'm doing in the class. On the positive side of things, in this class, just like any other assignment, I make sure it's completed on time to the best of my capabilities and learn new skills that'll help me further and I come to class everyday on time. However on the negative side, the draw back of this class is that I feel like it's meant for more photogenic art mediums like sculpture etc. Probably anything other than animation. I put my standards very high and want to look nothing but professional, so I have a limited supply of things I can post. Not to mention financial troubles hindering me from getting certain things done. With these things happening, naturally, certain details of an assignment are sacrificed.

However, I feel that in coming to talk to my teacher about these concerns, these situations are no more than a legitimate situational issue rather than an act of making "excuses". 

So in conclusion I certainly don't think I deserve an A, those are usually reserved for people who go above and beyond and succeed. But I'm doing my best to perform well in the class, and showing initiative to hurtle through my obstacles. In my opinion I believe a B or at least an average (C) is in order.

New Sites

For our next assignment we tried some new websites that we'll eventually want to  make as our own professional contacts. We were to try 2-3 but unfortunately only one worked for me. I stayed on the other site stuck on an uploading page several times, so it's safe to say, I'm not using that one:

Anywho, here are the 2 sites:

Site 1

Site 2

Site Map

My class is preparing to make our own sites, so my teacher had us create a rough of a site map.
Here's mine:

My Behance Site

http://www.behance.net/doryanelson

Banner Ideas

In class we were throwing around new banner ideas for this here Blogger. Here are a few I came up with. One of my ideas was to theme the banner in relation to something I'm working on at the moment. So for example, since I'm working on my directer debut with Sonic Prologue, I put Sonic's likeness in the logo so you could tell who it is, but not give it away. Basically holding that hidden mystic estetic I like to bring in everything.

Fun Fact: This marks the new launch of the Un-Chan Studios logo

Type Explorations!

Statements

Growing up, Doryan's always been interested in drawing. His mother in fact stills has his very first recongnizable picture, which was a drawing of Elmo. She notices that his skills were above that of kids his own age, so he was encouraged to keep drawing. Eventually a few years later he came across Sonic the Hedgehog who plays a big role in his life, let alone his art. Doryan's been obsessed with Sonic since the age of six and growing up his skills got better from drawing Sonic over and over and over and over again, perfecting his abilities to make him look like the way he did in the official artworks Doryan would study off of.
With his new skills, Doryan began drawing other things and basically that same formula stuck with him as he got older. Unfortunately though, there was never a point where he acquired my own style of drawing. Instead he would just appropriate what he was interested in at the time, so he was a little stuck.
It wasn't until college, when Doryan finally found the style that suited him and he's stuck with it ever since. So far he's quite pleased with the results and can't wait to see what the future holds in store for him :)

My Goals

For this blog, I've set up a list of goals and objectives I'd like to accomplish.
For one, I'd like this blog to be used as a learning tool for all of my do's and don'ts  as well as display my work the best way possible!

As for my audience there's no particular wanting. I only would like to see people who're fans of my work. I want to express my work in the best way possible, which should be no problem.
Now as far as presentation, let's see what I can come up with :)

Blog Specs

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Arial 

Courier

Georgia

Impact

Times New Roman 

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Text Color

white #ffffff

gray #dddddd

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blue #33aaff

gray #888888

Dark Blue #2288bb

Gray #666666

Black #000000