Novotny Animation: Well that certainly was a year!

So it's been about a year since my last real update. Not exactly how I wanted to run this blog haha, but I have 3 quarters (9 months) left to go before my graduation from the SCAD mfa animation program. I start production on my thesis film soon, and so I've been working hard to refine my storyboard and animatic. It's internship season now, and so my prime focus has been on animating things for my reel.

Gosh where did the year go? It seems like last week I was posting about riding the scad buses for the first time. I worked at Utrecht art supplies for a whole year and a half but finally decided it was time to move on this month, so I've been working at a new place much closer to my apartment.

School has been... Intense. Perhaps the best class I've taken here was by Scott Wright over the summer who worked as an animator for dreamworks. To be honest, I didn't think I could be an animator because all my work before that was so bad, but he really worked with us from the ground up. Totally turned my doubt into hope and I came back to school last fall with a renewed zeal to work. I've also had some fantastic classes by Mrs. Mooreshead and professor Silva.

I should also mention I've been taking some cinema history classes as well to round out my knowledge on filmmaking. Replacing my required art history course with cinema history was probably the greatest idea I've had here at scad. Seriously recommend it to any animation students out there. There's so much to be learned from live action filmmaking.

Also I made a trip to LA last November to attend ctneXpo, the animation convention. Had a fantastic time and got my reel reviewed by some pros! The Ted Ty talks were all incredible.

So that's kind of been my year. I'll try to update more and more often, and ill try to post some of my recent work next week. I'll leave you with a few photos!