Having to single in on just one career is difficult, and this was the first year when discussing careers we had to pick just one. Choosing a career is something most high school kids are expected to do now as they look for colleges, but most of the time it's just in terms of choosing a major or general field. We had to find a game design career that we were interested in, that we thought we would be good at, and that we would like to take on the roles of in an upcoming group project. I chose animator, but it took me some time to get there. We had a series of jobs to pick from, and a series of quizzes to tell us if we would be a good fit for each other them. However, the quizzes were missing animator and game developer, but there were quizzes for sound designer, game writer, producer, and programmer. All of my quizzes came back with the underwhelming result, "You might be good at this, but it's not a perfect fit." Because of this, I was planning to go with producer since I was getting sort of Jack-of-All-Trades results. However, in the end I decided to go with animator, not because I'm great at art, but rather because if I'm honest with myself, it's what I want to do as a job, even if I don't yet believe I'm talented enough to. Here's the infographic I made to represent animation and why I would be a good fit for it. The first box has some basic facts, I used two things that animators need to understand to incorporate graphics, and the last box for qualities that are nice to have as an animator. As I said earlier, I'm not a perfect fit for this career: I'm not great at 3D animation by any means, and my communication and time management skills could probably use some work still. However, I feel like if I do put in the work, my skills can get there, and I already have enough passion for it to make it work. I got information about animation from www.thebalance.com/animator-career-information-525982 .
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