Possible Learning Agreement Introduction

For years I unconsciously watched animation in the form of advertising on TV, cartoons and enjoyed comic strips. It wasn't until I was 14 and attended a seminar about art in animation hosted by the BFI that I realised the full extent of my love for moving image and what could be expressed with it, I hadn't realised, before seeing the dancing lines of len lye, that animation was something you could use to form and capture artistic creation. It was only from here that animation opened up to me and I started to fully realise what I'd been watching all along, I had a stringer, but not fully developed, sense of how to read animation. I became concious that animation was the ultimate control in film, each slight movement is constructed and thought about. I started to ponder how these shorts were made but due to this being a journey of discovery rather than education at this point it still took me a good while longer, until I was 19, to realise that the work load isn't out of reach and shorts can be produced by one person on low budget. Maybe this though was a blessing in disguise, had I have started creating animation any earlier I may not have been so engulfed in graphic design practice and the scope of it.