Introduction
Hi there! My Name is Ella Corcoran. I'm 19 years old and I'm currently in my first year of Creative Digital Media in TU Dublin.
I’ve always been a really creative person; I’ve been drawing since I can remember and I’ve been animating since I was about 9 years old. I’ve been playing guitar since I was about 10 and ukulele since I was 12. I usually always carry around a sketchbook and a few art liners, and I write all of my notes in light blue, purple or pink pen. What can I say? It looks better than black, blue and red pen if you ask me. I’ve had budgies since 2018, starting with an aviary with about 20 budgies, then downsizing to a large cage with two budgies, Thunder, who I hand fed and hand reared since she was about three weeks old, (You wouldn’t know though, she thinks biting is really funny and does it every chance she gets!) and Moss, who is actually Thunder’s dad! My favorite color is yellow, to a terrifying degree. I have tons of yellow clothes, I paint my nails yellow, my phone case is yellow, everything is yellow with me!
I’m really looking forward to getting to develop my creative side in this course. I’ve always loved to draw and I found that drawing isn’t really deemed appropriate in educational settings. Don’t get me wrong here, I wasn’t ignoring classes to draw instead. It helped me focus more when there was no writing to be done, to give my hands something to do so I can pay attention instead of drifting off and staring into space, however my teachers often took it the opposite way. Now, I have an entire module about visual creativity, most of the work for this module being done in a sketchbook, and I get to translate what I’ve learned from drawing into other mediums, such as photography and graphic design.
I’m also excited to learn the fundamentals of so many different industries. The original plan made by my 13-year-old self involved moving to California for college, becoming the best animator known to live and creating the most iconic cartoon of its decade. Little did 13-year-old me know, animation is hard and being a professional animator is even harder. So, the new and improved plan is to complete this course and maybe go into editing for TV or film, but this course gives me so many choices for work right out of the gate that I fully expect my plans to be flipped on their head just by a new module or a hidden skill I don’t know I have just yet. People tend to worry about what industry they’re locking themselves into when picking a college course, like law or medicine. I’m not worried in the slightest though, if I don’t like one aspect of what this course opens me up to, it’s no problem since I still have so many choices left.
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